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Thomas J. Anderson, 

Elected by the Ohio I,egislature, three terms of seven years each, Associate Judge. 



LIFE AND LETTERS 



of 



Judge Thomas J. Anderson 
and Wife 



Including a Few Letters from Children and 

Others; mostly Written During the 

Civil War; A History. 



Carefully Edited and Copiously Annotated by 

JAMES H. ANDERSON, LL. B., 

Life Member and Trustee of tfic Ohio State Archaeological and Historical 

Society; President of the Old Northwest Genealogical Society; and an 

active or corresponding member of several other societies. 



ILLUSTRATED 



Those wfio do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors, do not de- 
serve to be remembered by posterity. — edmund burke. 

Children's Children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children 
are their fathers. — pro. 17-6. 



PRESS OF F. J. HEER 

Nineteen Hundred and Four 



UBRaKY ai CONfiRESS 
Two C«pies Received 

MAR 10 1904 

1^ Copyright £ntry 
CLASS A. XXc. No 

T 8- 8 t. ; 

' COI»Y S 



Copyright, 1904 
By James House Anderson. 



PREFACE 

I HAVE long thought that a memoir of my father, Judge- 
Thomas Jefferson Anderson, would interest his old friends. 
and neighbors, and their descendants. I do not claim that 
he was a man of distinction in our country, nor even in our state, 
nor that he possessed any exceptional ability. He was a plain 
unpretending citizen of considerable consequence only, in the 
town and county in which he long resided. But he was a most 
useful man, and his example thoroughly beneficial and whole- 
some in the formative period of the Commonwealth, and during 
the Civil War. 

Lord Brougham, in writing of Charles Carroll says : "We do 
a thing of very pernicious tendency if we confine the records of 
history to the most eminent personages who bear a part in the 
events which it commemorates. There are often others whose sac- 
rifices are nuich greater, whose perils are more extreme, and 
whose services are nearly as valuable as those of the more prom- 
inent actors, and yet who have from chance, or by the modesty 
of a retiring and unpretending nature, never stood forward to 
fill the foremost places, or occupy the larger spaces in the eye of 
the world. To forget such men is as inexpedient for the public 
service as it is unjust towards the individuals. But the error 
is far greater of those who in recording the annals of revolu- 
tions, confine their ideas of public merit to the feats of leaders 
against established tyranny, or the triumphs of orators in behalf 
of freedom. Many a man in the ranks has done more by his 
zeal and his self-devotion than any chief, to break the chains of a 
nation." 

To this sentiment I subscribe, and hence have no apologies 
to offer for the publication of either the memoir, or the letters 
— the historic letters which follow. The life of a sincere and 
zealous though humble patriot in a great crisis of his country's 
history, is of far more importance to mankind than the theatrical 
career of a self-seeking, vain-glorious, aspiring leader, who rides 
rough-shod over others, bending them to his will, that he may 
reach the pinnacle of his own ambition. 

The letters of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, in this volume, writ- 
ten to children across the sea during the Great Civil War. will be 

(iii) 



Preface 

In my efforts to procure a copy of the Sweetser Impeach- 
:ment Memorial, found in the sketch of the Hfe of Judge Ander- 
son, I made hundreds of inquiries, and wrote a great many let- 
ters, but failed to secure one till September, 1902, when through 
the kind assistance of Mr. C. B. Galbreath, Ohio State Librarian, 
and Mr. R. G. Thvvaites, Superintendent of the State Historical 
Society of Wisconsin, I received a copy from the Library of that 
Society, at Madison, Wis. It was the only place where a copy 
•could be found I believe. Much other valuable data in this 
■volume I only obtained after prolonged efforts. 

James H. Anderson. 

Cohunbus, Ohio, 1^04. 



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LIFE AND LETTERS 



JUDGE THOMAS J. ANDERSON 
AND WIFE 



CHAPTER I 

1NOW propose to write a short memoir or life of my father. 
The genealogy, usual in a biographical sketch, shall in 
this be brief. His great-grandfather William Anderson, of 
Scotland, descended from a family of considerable prominence,, 
born in the Highlands in 1693, implicated in the rising of 1715 
in behalf of the Pietender, Prince James, son of James H, fled, 
in disguise, after the cruel suppression of this incipient rebel- 
lion, through England to Virginia, where British loyalists of 
his views ever found a warm welcome. It was not long after 
his arrival in America, until he received remittances, with which 
he bought real property in Maryland, and Virginia. He owned 
in 1738, and prior thereto, several plantations in the Conego- 
chiege manor, in Prince George's county, Md., one of which 
called Anderson's Delight, he sold to Dr. Geo. Stewart of the 
city of Annapolis in 1739.^ 

It was soon after coming to the country, that a rich and 
beautiful valley far up the Potomac, on the North Branch, 
attracted his notice, and on it he encamped and built a hunting 
lodge. This valley has ever since been known as The Anderson 

1 1 now have in my possession a survey and plat of this estate made 
October 24, 1739, by the deputy county surveyor. It is faded, discolored, 
worn, and bears the marks of age. It has made several long journeys. 
In the 18th century it was taken to "Virginia, thence in 1806 to Ohio, 
thence to Indiana, thence to Linn county, Missouri, whence it was sent to 
me about the year 1876 by my uncle James M. Anderson. 

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Bottom. On the south rose Knobley mountain, and the place 
included a part of the mountain side. When Hampshire county, 
Virginia, was erected, it embraced the Anderson Bottom which 
was only five miles from Fort Cumberland, constructed in 1754. 
When William Anderson' came to this part of Virginia, it was a 
wild region, a wilderness, and its inhabitants were mostly Indian 
savages. His cabin was probably more remote from civilization, 
and farther west than any other Anglo Saxon pioneer's. The 
adventurous French, following the water courses, early pene- 
trated the interior of the country, and a few no doubt occupied 
wilds more distant from tidewater. Be that as it may, civiliza- 
tion had not }et reached him, and his time here for years, was 
n'ainly spent in the sports of the forest in which he took delight. 
During this period of virtual exile, he spent the greater portion 
of every year on his Maryland |)lantation. 

He was a brave, sturdy man, and gallantly defended the 
infant settlements that soon made an appearance near his new 
home, from the murderous incursions of the Indians. His mili- 
tary experience now became of use to him, for while earnestly 
striving to avoid conflicts with the Indians, he was engaged in 
many. He recruited a company of soldiers in the Valley of Vir- 
ginia, which joined Gen. Braddock's army at Ft. Cumberland, 
in June 1755, and although disastrously defeated by the French 
and Indians near Ft. Du Quesne, (July 9, 1755), the^e Virgin- 
ians sustained their ancient reputation for valor. In war, Wil- 
liam Anderson was a good soldier, in peace a good citizen. He 
died on the Anderson Bottom, in Hampshire county, Virginia, 
in 1797, at the great age of 104. He died as he lived, a devout 
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

He was the father of four children, two sons and two daugh- 
ters. His daughter Agnes, sometimes called Ann, became the 
wife of Capt. William Henshaw, a Virginia gentleman who re- 
sided on his plantation on Mill Creek, near Bunker Hill, in 
Berkley county, Virginia, where his father, Nicholas, and grand- 
father John Henshaw, (of noble English blood) had resided. 

' I have heard Benjamin Williams, (grandfather of Gen. John Beatty) 
say (in conversing with my father), that he was acquainted with my great- 
great-grandfather William Anderson, and with my great-grandfather Capt. 
Thomas Anderson, and have heard him describe their appearance. Mr. 
Williams came from Hampshire county, Va., to Ohio. 



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Capt, Henshaw became prominent and quite wealthy, owning 
large bodies of land in the valley of Virginia and elsewhere. 

He accompanied Lord Dunmore to Chillicothe in 1774. 
With other Virginians he followed Washington to Massachu- 
setts in 1775, and actively engaged in the siege of Boston. His 
colonial and Revolutionary military services were creditable, and 
his name is mentioned in local histories.^ Many descendants- 
are living in the Valley of Virginia. Sarah, William Anderson's 
other daughter, married a Mr. Wilkins. His son William was 
killed by the Indians in the mountains near home. 

His son Thomas, my father's grandfather, was born on the 
old place on the Potomac in 1733, and early saw service in 
the Indian wars. He took part in several campaigns, and accom- 
panied Dunmore's Expedition to Chillicothe. Whether to repel 
invasion, or to carry the war into the Indian country, he was 
ever ready. And when the encroachments of the mother country 
became insupportable, and the colonies called the people to arms, 
he responded at once, and left the farm, for the hardships, 
dangers and glories of the field. He fought bravely tbrough- 
out the Revolutionary war, and was it is said, in command of 
his company at Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered. He 
was a frank, hardy frontiersman, whose experience as an In- 
dian fighter was of use to him during our war for Independ- 
ence. When his settlement or country needed a defender, he 
buckled on his armor, and went forth to battle; but he also 
loved the victories of peace, and when it dawned, he laid aside 
war's grim panoply, and thenceforth meekly cultivated the farm 
whereon he dwelt, and which, with other lands, finally became 
liis own by inheritance or by deed of gift. 

His wife was a Miss Bruce, of Virginia, by whom he had 
ten children, seven sons, and three daughters : James, William, 
John, Jonathan, Joseph, Abner, George, Margaret, Rachel, and 
Elizabeth. Their birthplace was the same as their father's, the 
Anderson Bottom. 



1 See Jacob's Life of Capt. Michael Cresap; History of Martinsburg, 
and Berkeley county, W. Va. ; Sketches by Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, late U. 
S. Minister to France, etc. 

2 His great-granddaughter. Miss Valley Virginia Henshaw, a lady of 
culture and prominence, now resides in Berkeley county, W. Va. She is a 
-member of the William Henshaw Chapter of the D. A. R. and is State 
Ilegent of the D. A. R. 

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Thomas Anderson's choice for the Presidency in 1788 and 
1792, was George Washington; in 1796, John Adams; and in 
1800, and 1804, Thomas Jefferson. Like his father, he was a 
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. I shall again refer 
to Capt. Thomas Anderson,^ telling of his removal, from Va., to^ 
Ohio, and when and where he died. 

His sons William, Joseph and Abner, took up arms against 
Great Britain in 181 2. Under Col. Sanderson they went from 
Fairfield county, Ohio, and William and Joseph are mentioned in 
Sanderson's report now on file in the office of the Adjutant Gen- 
eral of Ohio. This report, and these soldiers are mentioned in 
the histories of Fairfield, and Franklin counties. Joseph, under 
Gen. W. H. Harrison, died in the service at Upper Sandusky,. 
Ohio, of camp fever. William was in the battle of Lake Erie, 
(Peiry's Victory,) lay sick a while at Put-in-Bay, and after the 
invasion of Canada, died at Maiden, or Fort Maiden. They were 
good soldiers, and true men. but were swept away by an enemy 
more relentless and destructive than the British and Indians — 
the poisonous malaria of the vast swamps of Northern Ohio. 

Joseph, whose bones were unearthed a short time ago at Up- 
per Sandusky, was never married. William, whose widow lived 
many years after his death, had four children : Hiram, Josiah and 
William, and a daughter named Sina, who married her cousin 
Levi, my father's brother. John, son of Thomas, married, set- 
tled in southern Indiana, and reared a large family. His broth- 
ers, Jonathan and Abner, remained single, unvexed by fretful, 
querulous wives. George died in infancy. Joshua Critchfield,^ 
was married to Margaret at the old homestead in Virginia, re- 
moving thence to a farm in Fairfield county, Ohio. William 
Eagle, married Rachel, at the same place, and settled on a farm in 
Wayne county, O. William's nephew, Thomas Eagle, married 

1 Captain Thomas Anderson, soldier of the Revolution, died in October, 
1806, and was buried in Fairfield county, Ohio. The following Revolutionary 
soldiers rest in Marion county cemeteries: Frazer Gray, Joseph Gillett, 
James Swinerton, Ebenezer Ballantine. Joshua Va"n Fleet, Nathaniel Wyatt, 
John Irey, Samuel Simson, Benj. Tickel, Israel Clark, Jay Riggin, David 
Potts, Buckeye Davis and Andrew Hyde. Abel Spaulding, Col. Jehial Wil- 
cox, and James Landon, lie in Delaware county graveyards, though de-^ 
scendants live in Marion. 

2 Hon. li. J. Critchfleld, late of Columbus, Ohio, belonged to this branch 
of the Critchfleld family. "William Williams, of Delaware county, Ohio, was a 
grandson of Joshua and Margaret Anderson Critchfleld. • 

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Elizabeth, and they settled on a farm near the home of William 
and Rachel. They were prosperous farmers, and good hospit- 
able citizens, to whom my father occasionally paid visits. 

James Anderson, my father's father, son of Capt. Thomas An- 
derson, was born on the old place in Hampshire county, February 
17, 1768. Although very young, he was three months a soldier near 
the close of the Revolution. After completing his education, he 
opened a general store at or near Bunker Hill, in Berkeley county, 
A^a., where he was selling goods when Gen. Anthony Wayne's 
call for troops to march against the Western Indians, reached 
him. This was early in 1792, and the war feeling ran high. The 
people, restless under the humiliating defeat of Gen. Arthur St. 
Clair, in the Ohio country, (the Northwest Territory), the year 
before, (Nov. 4, 1791,) were impatient to avenge it, and wipe out 
the disgrace. James Anderson quit the traffic in goods, recruited 
a troop of horse, repaired to a place of military rendezvous, 
probably Ft. Cumberland, joined Wayne's Legion, was made an 
■ensign, and at once began to prepare for the campaign. 

In Wayne's army were soldiers of the Revolution, and raw 
recruits, but strict military discipline was enforced, on the 
march and beyond the (Jhio. Our young ensign was an enthu- 
siastic admirer of his daring commander, and supported him with 
fidelity, and heroism. As he was something of a draughtsman 
and mathematician, he superintended the construction of most of 
Wavne's forts, in the country traversed northwest of the Ohio 
river, now known as Ohio and Indiana. In military discipline he 
was efficient, while far from being a martinet. Though firm, he 
was kind and patient, and ever watchful of the welfare of his 
men. Hence he stood well with all, particularly the volunteers 
who had never faced an enemy or seen service. 

He was in several skirmishes with the Indians, and at the 
battle of Fallen Timbers August 20, 1794, his gallantry won him 
promotion. He was present at the treaty of Greenville,^ on the 

1 The first treaty made with Ohio Indians, ceding Ohio lands, was in 
1785; the next was made in 1786; the next was Wayne's treaty made 
August 3, 1795, with the W^yandots. and eleven other tribes. A treaty was 
made with the Wyandots September 29, 1817, providing for the Wyandot 
Reservation tnvelve miles square, at Upper Sandusky, its center being Ft. 
I'erree. This Reserve was ceded to the Government March 17, 1842. The 



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third day of August, 1795, and remained with the army through- 
out the campaign, and until the objects of the expedition were 
fully accomplished. Indeed he continued in the service till after 
the death of his beloved commander, "Mad Antony Wayne," (as 
he was called), at Presque Isle, now Erie, Pa., on the 15th day of 
December, 1796. 

While in the service, he was given three commissions : en- 
sign, lieutenant, and captain. As an officer he was not only 
highly esteemed by the rank and file, but by his superiors, and 
received his several promotions for meritorious services and gal- 
lantry. Prior to his service under Wayne, in addition to his 
short Revolutionary service, James Anderson, had had consid- 
erable militiary experience in . Indian warfare on the Virginia 
frontiers.! 

He was riot therefore, when he becariie a part of Wayne's 
Legion, a mere novice in the art of war, or Indian tactics. While 
he was in the service, he aided in suppressing the Whisky Insur- 
rection, (to what extent or at what time I am unprepared to say,) 
tliat broke out in Western Pennsylvania, during the administra- 
tion of President Washington. 

Delawai'e Reserve, three miles square, that adjoined the Wyandot, was 
ceded August 3, 1829. The Seneca Reserve of 40,000 acres, in Seneca and 
Sandusky counties, was Ceded Feb. 28, 1831. 

1 The papers, in the War Department, relating to Indian wars, not 
being classified or indexed, it is quite impossible to get much information 
from that source respecting the service of any soldier; but Gen. F. C. 
Ainsworth, in charge of that bureau, thinks that Congress will soon pro- 
vide for the indexing and printing of these valuable papers, now of great 
interest to many Americans. 



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CHAPTER II 

AFTER he returned from the wars, (1796), Capt. James 
Anderson, hke many another veteran, was restless and 
dissatisfied. The Old Dominion, was no longer the do- 
minion of his 'heart. The towering mountains, fertile valleys, and 
clear swift streams of the region of his birth, had lost their inspi- 
ration and charm. He longed for the rolling savannas, and dense 
primeval forests beyond the Ohio. He was not at home very 
long before he found a maiden to his taste. Miss Priscilla House, 
daughter of John^ and Ruth Metcalf House, of Hampshire, to 
whom he was united in marriage by Parson Page, the nearest 
Episcopal Clergyman. This sacred tie was fortunate for both 
for it was productive of real and lasting happiness. 

As Capt. Thomas Anderson,- had received but little money 
for his services during the Revolution, and had Ijeconie involved 
as surety for. old Revolutionary conu-ades, his son James, tried 
to persuade him to sell out, and remove to the infant State of 
Ohio. The Virginians of that day were attached to their homes, 
to the soil whereon they and their ancestors had dwelt, and this 
old soldier of the Revolution was not unlike the rest ; but he 
finallv yielded to the persistent entreaties of his gallant son, and 
consented to sell, and found a new home in a newer state. So on 
Februarv 26, 1806, his plantation, bottom land and mountain side, 
became the property of Col. Daniel Collins, and in the fol- 
lowing month the Andersons began their toilsome western mi- 
gration. Who shall describe the hardships of a journey from 
Hampshire county, Va., to Fairfield county, Ohio, in the month 
of March of that year! They reached Lancaster, then a little 
cluster of wooden houses, April 6th, 1806, and their farms on 

1 John Hou.se owned a larse body of land in Hampshire county. His 
descendants occupy it now — li)OJ. 

- My grandfather James Anderson, was appointed administrator of 
the estate of his father. Thomas Anderson, who died in October. 1806, 
leaving- quite an estate for that day. Letters of administration, and other 
papers, finely written, signed by the clerk of the courts of Fairfield 
county. Ohio. Hugh Boyle, fatlier-in-law of Hon. Thomas Kwing. are in my 
possession. 



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Clear Creek the next day. Those who then came to Ohio were, 
Capt. Thomas Anderson — his wife had died sometime before — 
and his children, and their families. And here, on his farm, in 
the month of October following his arrival, Thomas Anderson, 
the pioneer, the Revolutionary soldier and patriot, died of ma- 
larial fever, and was buried hard-by. 

James and Priscilla House Anderson, were the parents of 
eleven children, ten of whom grew to be men and women. Levi, 
Thomas Jefiferson, John and Mahala, were born on the old place 
in Hampshire county ; Elizabeth. James Madison, Ruth, Rebecca, 
Hiram H. and Priscilla, were born in Fairfield county. Ohio. 
Several of the children of Capt. James Anderson,^ having set- 
tled in Clinton count)-, Indiana, he decided to join them. He 
thereupon sold his real and personal property in Ohio, and re- 
moved to that part of Indiana some years before his death, which 
occurred October 24, 1844. Nor did his devoted wife long re- 
main behind, for she died on the 15th day of August, 1847, ^^ the 
age of seventy. 2 

1 may say that the main employment and occupation during 
life, of Capt. James Anderson, was clearing and tilling his lands, 
and tending his flocks and herds ; but after coming to Ohio, for 
several years, he divided his time between agriculture and sur- 
veying. Like the people whence he came, he was very hospita- 
ble. Two classes particularly were always welcome, old sol- 
diers and itinerant preachers. Revolutionary soldiers, Wayne's 
men, the soldiers of the war of '12, and the itinerant 
pioneer heralds of the cross, found his house a home. The 
prodigal hospitality which he dispensed, precluded the possibil- 
ity of amassing wealth. He was also noted for his active and 
timely labors in behalf of needy pioneers, for his earnest support 
of religion, and of the Whig party. In his day he was accounted 
a good soldier, and a good patriotic citizen. 

^ He and his wife moved to Washington township, Clinton county, Ind., 
in the fall of 1834 or early in 1835. All their children had already left Fair- 
field county. They all entered the married state, reared families, and lived 
to be old people. Capt. James Anderson had one son. Rev. H. H. Ander- 
son, and one son-in-law, Rev. Alfred N. Cave (a chaplain), and seventeen 
grandchildren in our service during the Great Rebellion. 

2 Their graves are side by . side in the "Old Abbot Graveyard," in 
Clinton county. Ind. 



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His political views are best shown by the names of the 
statesmen whose leadership he followed. Men were divided by 
party lines before and dnring the Revolution, as they have been 
since, but the influence of public men as individuals, was far more 
potent a century, or even half a century ago than now. Our 
ancestors followed the fortunes of a political leader, just as 
the people to-day adhere to a political party. Our party right 
OR WRONG, is the motto of a very large majority. It is shown 
in their blind devotion to party, in their refusal to acknowledge 
any merit in another party, or that any good can come out of it. 
Our party is altogether right : the other, or opposition, wholly 
wrong. 

James Anderson was oidy twenty years old when George 
Washington, his first choice for the Presidency, was unani- 
mously nominated for that high office in 1788. There was no 
political convention nor need of one to nominate our first Pres- 
ident. The people were a unit for the man who was "first in 
war. first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" ; and 
the Presidential electors wdio were chosen in January, 1789. cast 
every ballot in February for George Washington.^ 

He was elected for four years from the fourth of March, ^ 
1789, but did not take the oath of office, nor enter upon its 
duties till the 30th of April, the day he delivered his inaugural 
speech. James Anderson, was now, (1789) twenty-one, an ardent 
admirer of \Vashington, and cordial supporter of his adminis- 
tration. 

1 "In event it appeared that amidst ttie discordance of opinion respect- 
ing the merits of the Federal Constitution there was but one sentiment 
throughout the United States respecting the man who should administer 
the government. On counting the votes of the electors of President and 
Vice President, it was found that General George Washington had their 
unanimous suffrage and was chosen President of the United States for 
four years from the 4th of March, 1780." From Life of Washington, by- 
Aaron Bancroft. D. D., written in 1807. 

- It was not possible for Washington to reach New York, the tempor- 
•ary capital of the country by the 4th of March, for the official notice of 
his election was not received till April 14th. On the 16th of April he left 
Mt. Vernon for New York, and reached that city on the 2.3d. His journey 
thither was one continuous ovation. By a resolution of Congress, the oath 
of office was administered, and the Inauguration took place April 30th. 
It was in January 17S.T that Congress decided to change the seat of Gov- 
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In 1792 he advocated his re-election. Washington, declin- 
ing a third term, he espoused the cause of John Adams, in 
1796; but in 1800, and 1804, his first choice was Thomas Jef- 
ferson. In 1808, and 1812, he supported James Madison; and 
in 18 1 6 and 1820, James Monroe. In 1824, Henry Clay was 
his favorite, but in 1828 he preferred John Quincy Adams. In 
1832, Clay was again his favorite candidate, but in 1836, and 
1840, he voted for his old comrade in arms (under Wayne) 
William Henry Harrison. The old soldiers who fought under 
Gen. Wayne, in his Indian campaigns, were pleased with the 
stand taken by Harrison, in behalf of "Wayne's men." He 
said they had suffered more hardships, and received less reward 
than any of our patriotic soldiers before or since ; and that 
if elected, one of his first acts would be an effort to have their 
wrongs righted and their just claims allowed. I have often 
heard James. Anderson's son John, repeat tliis. The substance 
of this will be found in Gen. W. H. Harrison's speech at Fort 
Meigs^ in 1840. When Henry Clay was again a candidate in 



Note. What induced my ancestors, — people of intelligence and means 
— to settle in Faii-field county. Ohio, early in April 1806, I cannot say. Gen. 
Thomas Ewing: once told me that Clear Creek, where they settled, contained 
some of the finest scenery in the world. Gen. W. T. Sherman, in his 
"Memoirs, written by himself," says that his father commenced practicing' 
law in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1810, "and continued there till the time of his 
death in 1829. I have no doubt," he says, "that he was in the first instance 
attracted to Lancaster, by the natural beauty of its scenery, and the 
charms of its already established society." These considerations may pos- 
.sibly have influenced my grandfather and great-grandfather. 

' The following extracts from a speech by Gen. William Henry Har- 
rison, delivered at Ft. Meigs, during the Presidential Campaign of 1840, 
will be found in a book (in the State Library), compiled by A. B. Norton 
of Mt. Vernon, O. "I see many of my old companions here, [soldiers who 
fought under Wayne,] and I see not a few of the Revolutionary veterans 
around me. Would to God it had ever been in my power to have made 
them comfortable and happy, that their sun might go down in peace. But 
my fellow citizens, they [Wayne's soldiers] remain improvided for — monu- 
ments of the ingratitude of my country. It was with the greatest difficulty 
that the existing pension act was passed through Congress. But why was 
it restricted? Why were the brave soldiers who fought under Wayne ex- 
cluded? Soldiers who suffered far more than they who fouglit in the 
Revolution proper. The Revolution in fact did not terminate until 1794, 
until the battle was fought upon the battle-ground [Fallen Timbers] upon 
which my eyes now rest, -f * * Until then the great highway to the 
West was the scene of unceasing slaughter. * * * i have said that the 
soldiers under Wayne experienced greater hardships than even the soldiers 
of the Revolution, and this is so. Everyone can appreciate the difference 
between an Indian and a regular war. * * * Well my fellow citizens, I 
can only say. that if it sliould ever be in my power to pay the debt due 

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1844, James Anderson was an earnest advocate of his election,, 
but died a few days before the close of the Presidential campaign. 

I have now given his political record in respect to personal 
preferences in national contests, from which his views on the 
engrossing questions of his day may easily be inferred. His 
father, and grandfather were whigs during the Revolution. He 
and his sons were Whigs in later times. 

In a letter in my possession his son, John, says: "He was 
a member of the Church of his ancestors, till he settled in Ohio, 
and then became a meml^er of the M. E. Church. He joined 
the M. E. Church, simply because there was no Episcopal Church 
in his neigborhood." 



these brave but neglected men, tliat del)t shall first pf all be paid." The 
whole of this speech appears in Norton's book entitled, "The Great Revo- 
lution of 1840. Reminiscences of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Cam- 
paign." In the "Preface" it is stated that "The songs waked the people 
up in 1S40, and played a very important part in the great revolution. In 
the cabins, upon the roads, in the towns and cities, everywiiere sweet voices 
were singing the songs for 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too.' .Those in this book 
* * * were the most popular in the days of log cabins, hard cider, etc. 
The Whigs sung them joyfully: every Harrison man loved a good song." 



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CHAPTER III 

THOMAS JEFFERSON ANDERSON, the subject of this 
sketch, son of Capt. James Anderson, was born at the old 
homestead in Virginia, on the second day of April, 1801, 
less than a month after the inauguration of President Jefferson, in 
honor of whom he was named. He was called Thomas for an- 
other reason : it was the name of his grandfather. He spent five 
years of his life at the place of his birth, a beautiful, insulated, 
romantic spot, bounded by river and mountain : — frontage, the 
Potomac : background, Knobley mountain. Here on the banks of 
the historic river was the scene of his infantile gambols, where he 
whiled away the time till the removal of the familv. In Ohio, 
he attended school whenever the schoolmaster taught, which was 
not many months of the year ; and assisted his father and 
brothers in clearing, draining, fencing and tilling the land, and 
in caring for the stock until he was nearly a man. 

The Andersons reached Lancaster, Ohio, as has been stated, 
■on the sixth day of April, 1806, and their farms on Clear Creek 
the following day. This lovely valley was then a wild region, 
occupied by wild beasts, a few white settlers, and bands of 
roving Indians more or less hostile. After Wayne's treaty at 
Greenville, with the Indians, they were called friendly, yet white 
people in a settlement as remote as Fairfield county, particularly 
women and children, long stood in fear and were in more or 
less danger. Indians were occasionally slain by lawless white 
men, and retaliation sometimes followed. So the settlers had 
cause to fear the tomahawk of the skulking savage for many 
j^ears after my relatives came to Ohio. And the Indians were 
actually hostile, as the reader well knows, during the last war 
with Great Britain ; and for two or three years, the poor defense- 
less settler thought, when the twilight shadows began to fall, 
that every forest tree concealed the bloody tomahawk of the 
lurking savage. It was indeed a time to excite fear in the 
breast of the bravest, for the settlers were in constant danger, 
day and night, and but for the unwavering friendship of the 
Wyandots, many would have lost their lives. 

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After Hull's surrender^ and the merciless cruelty of the 
savages- had caused a reign of terror in the settlements, my 
uncle, John Anderson^ (now living in Marion), then a small 
boy, saw my father cutting down the bar-posts that stood near 
the house. "Why, Thomas, what is this for?" he asked in as- 
tonishment. "Well, John," he replied, "Hull, the traitor, has 
surrendered our army, the British and Indians will soon be here, 
and I don't intend they shall have these bar-posts. We are 
all going back to Virginia, and won't need them any longer 
anyhow." My father used to tell his children many anecdotes 
about those unsettled times which showed the anxiety and fear 
in which all dwelt. 

The dwellings of the pioneers, for many years, were small, 
cabins made of round logs, and roofed with clapboards, Not 
a nail or other piece of iron was used in their construc- 
tion. The food of the occupants of these simple tenements was- 
Indian corn, fish, game, wild swine, wild fruit, nuts, greens, etc. 
Yet they were less inclined to murmur and complain than the 
people to-day. The first settlers of a country, as a rule, are 
kindly disposed, friendly, hospitable, the common wants of the- 
needy in their midst are cheerfully supplied, and the worthy re- 
cipients are never thought less of by their big-hearted bene- 
factors. Hence, while the work of building, subduing and re- 

1 Brigadier General William Hull, in command of the Army of the 
Northwest, on the 16th of August 1812, made an inglorious surrender of 
Detroit to the British and Indians, under Gen. Isaac Brock, and Tecumseh. 
Hull was cashiered, and later tried by court-martial and sentenced to death, 
but was reprieved, in consideration of his age and Revolutionary services, 
by President Madison. Detroit was retaken by Gen. W. H. Harrison, in 
October 1813, after Perry's Victory on Lake Erie. 

• By command of Hull, Ft. Dearborn, (Chicago), was abandoned August 
15, 1812: and after leaving the Fort, two-thirds of the garrison, including 
women and twelve children were massacred by Indians. On January 22, 
ISLS, at Frenchtown — River Raisin — Gen. Winchester, with 800, mostly 
Kentucky soldiers, was attacked by 1,500 British and Indians under Proc- 
tor. The Americans agreed to surrender, after an assurance of protection, 
but the sick and wounded were nearly all tomahawked or tortured. The- 
warcry of the Kentucky soldiers, "Remember the River Raisin," was long 
heard. After this massacre, more than 2,000 British and Indians, under 
Proctor and Tecumseh besieged Ft. Meigs, April 26, 1813. On May 5th, 
Gen. Green Clay came with 1,000 Kentuckians, but in attempting to capture 
the British batteries, and to reach the Fort, 630 of these brave men cruelly- 
perished at the hands of the white and Indian savages. The enemy how- 
ever were so weakened by daring sorties, and by the desertion of Indiani 
allies, that the siege was soon raised. 

3 John Anderson died after this was written January 3, 1888. 

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-claiming is burdensome, and schools and churches few and far 
between, and the luxuries and refinements of life. rarely seen, 
it is a question whether pioneers are not happier than their 
descendants. 

Like other old soldiers, Capt. James Anderson kept guns 
about the house, and as Thomas was fond of hunting he put 
them to good use. When, as it sometimes happened, corn meal 
and other eatables were scarce, the house was soon well sup- 
plied with game. At the period of which we write, the creeks 
and rivers were full of fish, and the woods, in season, of wild 
fruits and nuts, and these luxuries when desired were rarely 
absent from the table. 

The lot of the pioneers was by no means the hard one that 
orators nowadays at pioneer picnics represent it to have been. 
Their wants were few and easily supplied. Some drank too much 
whisky, were shiftless and thriftless ; but those that came of 
good stock and were prudent and orderly got along well. It 
is true there was milk-sickness in the land, and fever and ague, 
but the people were usually healthy and robust. Although his 
parents were pious people, Thomas J. had his amusements. He 
was a youth of uncommon activity and strength, and enjoyed 
hunting, fishing, skating, swimming, horseback-riding, jumping, 
wrestling, ball-playing and pleasure-parties, such as were given 
by the pioneers. Like the neighboring pioneers and their sons, he 
was ever ready to help the needy. He assisted them in building 
their cabins, at huskings, log-rollings, when sick and in distress, 
and in moments of peril. As a youth he stood by the weak against 
the strong, for he had a great heart and never knew fear. Hos- 

NOTE. I am Informed that the farm owned by my grandfather on 
Clear Creek, is now the property of Hon. Samuel Lutz. On the arrival of 
my ancestors in Fairfield county, (in 1806), Samuel Lutz, then over seven- 
teen years old, was living- with his parents on a neighboring farm. He 
still resides on the same farm, but it is now in Pickaway County. Although 
he was one hundred years old on the thirteenth of March 1889, he then 
enjoyed good health, and was able to receive and entertain 1,200 people 
who came to see him and celebrate the day. Samuel Lutz died since the 
above was written, September 1, 1890, having lived on the same farm since 
October 1802. Samuel Lutz was the son of Jacob, the son of Ulrich, the 
son of Michael, who came to Pennsylvania about 1720. Samuel married 
Elizabeth Fetherolf, October 15, 1811. Samuel Lutz's intelligent son, Isaac, 
born May 10, 1823, has resided on the same farm in Ross Co., Ohio, for 
more than 56 years, and is a large land owner. He informs me that it was 
Ijrobably his father's brother John D.. that bought my grandfather's farm. 

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pitality was a predominant feature and trait ; it was taught 
in the forest ; it came down to him from his Virginia ancestry ; 
it was a part of his nature. 

His hfe on the farm was now drawing to a close. He was 
eighteen years old. He had assisted his father and mother in 
tiieir work. He had gone along when his father had survey- 
ing to do, carrying the chain, driving the stakes, and blazing 
the trees. But his father had now decided to send him back 
to \''irginia. So one fine morning he mounted his horse and 
started homeward ; for Virginia ever remains the home of all 
true Virginians. He was young, strong, and hopeful ; his spirits 
were bright and buoyant. — the dreary wilderness, the bridge- 
less rivers, the pathless mountains, had no terrors for him. He 
arrived in the Valley of Virginia in due time. Here he spent 
years of the springtide of vouth, visiting relatives, hunting and 
fishing, going to school, and in acquiring a store of knowledge 
of various kinds that was more or less useful through life. This 
halcyon period was mainly spent amid the wonderful and pic- 
turesque scenery of Hampshire, Hardy, Berkeley, and Jeffer- 
son counties. He spent three pleasant years in "our old home" 
— Virginia — and it was probably due to the premature im- 
pressions of childhood, and to this visit, rather than to any 
distinct early recollections that he ever retained so warm an af- 
fection for the place of his l^irth. 

Bred in the backwoods, he was at home on horseback, an 
accomplished hunter, and knew how to handle and enjoy the 
line, gig, and seine in pursuit of the finny tribe. On the Poto- 
mac, at that time, it was a fashionable amusement to "gig for 
eels," and many an evening was thus spent by him and his 
young associates. He participated in many a fox-hunt ; and 
day after day, rifle in hand, clambered over the mountains in 
quest of bigger game. Bears, panthers, wolves, wildcats, deer, 
and other game abounded in the wild and almost inaccessible 
mountain regions of Hampshire and Hardy. 

Thomas J. Anderson's hair, eyes, and complexion were dark, 
his features regular, and before severe wounds broke his health, 
and bent his form, he was five feet ten inches in height, rather 
spare, firmly knit, athletic, able to endure much fatigue, and a 
great lover of out-door pastimes. His visit to Virginia however, 

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was not wholly one of physical recreation and amusement, for 
he attended school, ^ was taught the art of book keeping, and 
acquired a ]n-actical business education that was of great use 
to him in the ups and downs of life. 

At Harper's Ferry, where he spent considerable time, he be- 
came well acquainted with an old, well informed Englishman, 
a hatter by trade and occupation, whose society he found con- 
genial. He was a man of the world, thoroughly practical, and 
a fine, entertaining conversationalist. Pleased and instructed by 
the colloquial eloquence of this free hearted son of Albion, my 
father sought his society, and his shop became a favorite place 
of resort. Finally, my father, who had a mechanical turn of 
mind, became interested in the somewhat intricate branch of trade 
pursued by this friendly Englishman, nor was it long before he 
had acquired a knowledge of it, a knowledge both theoretical 
and practical, but rather theoretical than practical. The knowl- 
edge thus obtained, was gratifying to my grandfather, who hav- 
ing imbibed many Jefifersonian, revolutionary ideas, believed that 
every man should learn a trade for the public good, or to fall 
back on in case of misfortune. And it may here be stated, that 
complying with my grandfather's wisheg each of his other sons 
learned the cooper's trade, spending in doing so about six weeks. 
The young coopers however returned to farmin^^ which they 
understood, and made it a life work, except Hiram- who became 

1 My father's mother understood German, and he spoke imperfectly both 
the tlerman and Wyandot languages. 

- Since the above was written, death claimed Rev. Hiram H. Anderson. 
He was born November 20, 1815, and died February IS. 1888. I have a letter 
before me from my uncle. Rev. H. H. Anderson, in which he says: "I had 
three sons in the service during the rebellion. David, the eldest, born Feb- 
ruary 3, 18.38, enlisted in the Second Reg. O. V. I.; re-enlisted in the First 
U. S. Cavalry, Co. K; died of smallpox in 1882 after taking Corinth. My 
second son, James M., born August 11, 1841, enlisted in the Third O. V. I.; 
re-enlisted in the Fifty-fourth O. V. I.; was badly wounded in the battle 
of Chattanooga, and honorably discharged. He re-enlisted in the One 
Hundred and Thirteenth O. V. I., where he remained as first sergeant till 
the close of the war. He was wounded twice. John W., born August 27, 
1844. enlisted in the Eighty-eighth O. V. I., for three years. In 1868 he 
was killed by the caving in of a gravel-bank. My son-in-law died in the 
army. I was in the Hundred Days service, re-enlisted September 3, 1864, 
in the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth O. V. I., Co. E., and was honorably 
discharged June 6, 1865." He was first assistant in the Commissary Depart- 
ment, but acted as chaplain most of the time. His son Hiram J., by a 
second wife, was born in 1876. 

In another letter, my uncle says: "I do not know all the plantations 

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a Methodist preacher. And Hiram, after giving many years of 
his life to the reguhir work of the ministry is now,, in his old 
age, a farmer and local preacher. 

my great-grandfather William Anderson owned, but I know he was vastly 
rich. He was married twice. His second wife, a Miss Barnett, was a girl 
of seventeen, with whom he lived twenty-four years. Al the time of his 
second marriage he was 80 years old. When he died he was 104, and his 
wife died the following year. I believe he had no children by the second 
marriage. 

"Now as to myself: I was born November 20, 1815, was converted to 
God August 17, 1830, was licensed to exhort in the year 1840, and -licensed 
to preach in the year 1850 by the M. B. Church. I held that relation till 
after the close of the war. I then labored as an itinerant preacher in the 
Christian Union, for nine years. I now hold the position of local elder 
in the M. B. Church." 

My great-great-grandfather William Anderson, above referred to, ac- 
quired the Anderson Bottom plantation in Hampshire county Va., by patent 
from Thomas. Lord Fairfax. Besides his Maryland real estate, William 
owned a number of other tracts. William and his (first) wife Rachel, 
conveyed 100 acres of good land on New Creek, in Hampshire county, to 
John Baker, Nov. 9, 1772. William and his (second) wife Margaret con- 
veyed Sept. 17, 1787, to James Malloy, 327 acres of choice land, situate on 
Gibbons and Crooked run, in said county. William conveyed by deed of 
gift. May 18, 1791, to his son Thomas, 187 acres of the Anderson Bottom 
farm, also other lands adjoining it, and 50 acres lying in Maryland. Wil- 
liam and his wife Margaret, conveyed July 22, 1797, to Thomas Ander- 
son, 206 acres of choice land on Gibbons and Crooked run, in said county. 
Thomas Anderson and Sarah his wife, conveyed Nov. 22, 1802, said 206 
acres to Martin Shaffer. Thomas Anderson conveyed April 16, 1802, by 
-deed of gift, 93 acres of the Anderson Bottom to his son James. Thomas 
Anderson coneveyed Feb. 26, 1806, to Daniel Collins, all the Anderson Bot- 
tom land except said 93 acres. James Anderson and Priscilla his wife, 
conveyed Febi'uary 26, 1806, to Daniel Collins said 93 acres. The deeds of 
conveyance of said real estate, except of the Maryland property, are all of 
record in Romney, Hampshire county, W. Va. William Anderson obtained 
;the most of his Virginia real estate from Lord Fairfax. 



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CHAPTER IV 

AFTER Thomas J. Anderson's return from Virginia, he re- 
mained on the farm with his parents till his marriage to 
Miss Nancy Dunlevy, which took place on the 7th day of 
August, 1825. Whereupon they decided to make their start in 
life in the new county of Marion. On the 4th day of December 
following, they were living in Marion, which was destined to be 
their home from that time. The county began to be settled^ as 
soon as the public land was subject to entry at the land office in 
Delaware, which was in 1820; the town of Marion was laid out 
by Eber Baker and Alexander Holmes, in 1822, but Marion 
county was not organized till December 15, 1823. The legislature 
erected the county February 12, 1820, and named it Marion, after 
Gen. Marion of the Revolution, and defined its boundaries,^ but it 
was not organized, for various causes, till December 15, 1823. It 
was thought by many that Claridon, laid out by Hon. James 
Kilbourne, of Franklin county, grandfather of Col. James Kil- 
bourne, would become the county seat, but after a warm contest 
Marion was chosen. Before moving to Marion, my father had 
visited the city in embryo, and selected a home. 

I do not think he made a wise choice of a county in which 
to spend his davs, for it was then a dismal section of the state. 
Now, it is certainly not luiattractive, but then it appeared low, 
flat and uninviting. There was then even in summer little to 
delight the eye, save the wild flowers, and the high rank waving 
wild grass of the plains, through which wound small sluggish 

1 There were a good many squatters in Marion county prior to 1820, some 
of whom no dout)t later became land owners. 

2 "Marion county was constituted by name and boundaries in February, 
1820; but not organized until January 1824. The county was first settled 
in 1820. On the 15th of August of that year, the first tracts of land therein 
were offered for sale, when the settlement commenced." From the Ohio 
Gazetteer, page 284, published in Columbus, in 1841. 

Marion, Sandusky, Wood and other counties were erected by act of 
February 12, 1820, from "all that part of the lands lately ceded by the 
Indians to the United States, which lies within this state." Only Sandusky 
and Wood were then fully organized. Crawford and Marion were attached 
to Delaware until fully and completely organized. Marion was organized 
December 15, 182."?, and Crawford January 31, 1826. See Ohio Statesmen and 
Annals of Progress, Vol. T. p. 97, by Col. W. A. Taylor. 

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streams, whose dark waters, like the countless prairie swamps, 
prophesied malaria, misery and death. 

Besides there was then something in the gloomy woods, or 
in the rank wild grass of the swampy prairies, more to be dreaded 
than the malaria, yea more than the venomous snakes that seemed 
to thrive in such an atmosphere and environment. It was some- 
thing that gave cattle a fatal disease, and they in turn imparted 
it to the inhabitants who used their flesh, or milk, or butter made 
from it. When it attacked cattle, they trembled from head to 
feet, as from a severe chill, or as a person with ague, until they 
died. Hence the pioneers called it "The trimbles", but when a 
person was stricken, he was said to have "The milk-sickness". 
The flesh or milk of an animal was poisoned before the disease 
could be detected ; hence the danger. Only neat cattle were 
seized by this dangerous malady, and science, I believe, has 
failed to discover its true origin. When it was prevalent, it was 
said that no victim ever fully recovered from it, — from its ter- 
rible efl^ects. The disease, at one time quite common in the level 
portions of our state, seems to have disappeared, and drainage 
and cultivation have probably destroyed the cause. The early 
settlers attributed it to various herbs, to stagnant water, to the 
leeches therein etc., but it still remains, and probably will ever 
remain a mystery.^ It would seem however, that a post mortem 
exammation should have determined the real cause of so much 
suffering and mortality. 

In removing from Fairfield county to Marion, my father left 
high hills, swift streams, and clear sweet springs, for the dis- 
comforts, and monotony that life on a level plain, destitute of 
drainage and cultivation, implies. But neither the muddy roads, 
nor the swampy prairies, nor the malaria, nor the milk-sickness 
in and about their new home, discouraged either of my parents, 
for their agreeable dispositions were ever buoyant and hopeful. 
Even death itself — and it often came, and in many forms — 

1 "The milk-sickness is a mysterious disease which . . . seems 
to have been a malignant form of fever — attributed ... to the eating 
of poisonous herbs by the cattle . . . attended with violent retching- and 
a burning sensation in the stomach, often terminating fatally on the third 
day." Abraham Lincoln, by Nicolay and Hay, Vol. I, ch. 2, p. .30. Webster 
says its cause is unknown. 

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failed to produce feelings of permanent depression, or discour- 
agement. 

To reach Marion they passed through Columbus, which they 
should have made their home, for my father was not destitute 
of means himself, and my mother was quite well ofi. She, and 
her two sisters, Julia and Mary, owned large tracts of land in 
the region known as the Pickaway Plains, and elsewhere ni the 
State, and she had in cash besides about $2,000.00 — quite a 
fortune for that day. But my father came of pioneer stock, and 
like his ancestors in this country, wanted to push ahead, and 
found a home in a settlement strictly new. 

However low, wet, and dreary the surface of Marion county^ 
rnay have appeared in 1825, and whatever may have been its con- 
dition, the eiTect of scientific drainage and cultivation is to-day 
plainly apparent. The pastures are tame, the meadows and culti- 
vated fields rich and jiroductive, and the farm houses and farms, 
home-like and attractive. And it is a fact, that some will hardly 
credit, that since the drainage of the low lands, the face of the 
country or landscape, has lost its flat, dead-level appearance. It 
is now indeed gently indulating, rolling" I may say, and an Eng- 
lishman passing through the grazing portions, might easily fancy 
himself in localities of beauty in his native land. The flocks, herds, 
groves, blue grass ranges, pastoral manners and simplicity, tend 
to confirm the illusion. Few counties in the state surpass Marion 
in fine cattle, sheep, and horses ; and few in actual strength of 
soil which will out-Avear the light friable, porous soils elsewhere 
found. 

Mv father was an earnest, zealous Christian. He early gave 
his heart to God, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church.^ 
He aided in organizing the first society of the kind in Marion.^ 
The tenets of the Church he indorsed, its mode of worship he 

1 1 am alluding- to the prairie portions of the county, but some of the 
woodlands were equally flat. 

- He was baptized in the Episcopal Church, but was brought up in the 
M. E. Church, of which he became a member at the age of nineteen. 

3 "The first religious society, formed in Marion, was the Methodist, 
in 1824-25, by Rev. Erastus Felton, comprising Henry Peters, Mr. and 
Sarah Hillman, John Ashbaugh, Benjamin Williams, wife, and daughters 
Sarah and Elizabeth, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Anderson, Rev. Andrew 
Kinnear, a local preacher, Harvey Clark, and Horace Strong, and their 
families." History of Marion county, Ohio, pp. 290, 517. 

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enjoyed, and he liad confidence in its enthusiastic adherents. 
But I never heard him utter a word against other denominations. 
He beHeved they were all filling useful places in the religious 
world, providing stepping stones to grace, and offering spiritual 
consolation to the people according to their tastes and beliefs. 
The Rev. Alexander Campliell, the distinguished founder of 
the sect called Campbellites, or Disciples of Christ, sometimes 
visited a sister, Airs. Joseph Bryant, who resided on the large 
stock farm owned by the family near Marion. On such occasions, 
his friends were always anxious to hear him preach, but there 
was no Campbellite Church in town. The Methodist, among 
other protestant denominations, closed their doors against him. 
My father^ always urged the trustees to permit him to occupy 
the pulpit, but was invariably refused. Mr. Campbell was treated 
as Universalists then were, and as Jews and Infidels, now are. 
The Presbyterians, less bigoted, or more charitable and gener- 
ous, permitted the great divine to fill the little pulpit in the base- 
ment of their church, and my father accompanied by his familv, 
always went to hear the word expounded. 

My father's freedom from narrowness, and bigotry, were as 
well known as his positive religious convictions. The sentiment 
of President Lincoln's famous message : "With malice towards 
none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right," influenced 
him throughout life. In all my journeyings I have never met a 
truer man or Christian. lie was in verity an humble follower of 
Christ. Though a member of the M. E. Church,- he had entire 
faith in any man, — faith I may say in his piety, — regardless of 
his sectarian views, or religious convictions, who day by day 
walked u])rightly before his fellow men. 

1 I think he nearly always held an offlclal position in the church, such 
as steward, trustee, or classleader. I find this among the papers of Judge 
Andei-^on: "Thomas J. Anderson's certificate of membership. By Robert 
Boyd, pastor. The bearer, Thomas J. Anderson, is an acceptable member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Alleghany Circuit, Winchester Dis- 
trict, Baltimore Conference. Given under my hand this 14th day of Novem- 
ber, 182.S. Robert Boyd." 

- "The trustees of the M. E. Church in Marion, in 1830 — the date of 
the oldest trustee book that can be found — were Andrew Kinnear, chair- 
man, William Godman. secretary, Henry Peters, and Thomas J. Anderson. 
They decided to purchase In-lot No. 2, on East street, on which to erect 
what was afterwards known as The Old Stone Church." History of Marion 
county, p. 518. 

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The first house occupied by my parents in Marion, (on lot 
No. 69), was a one story log cabin of three or four rooms, the 
ceilings of which were very low. It was on South Main street, 
and was afterwards owned and occupied by Samuel Salter. 
Houses were then so scarce that they were hard to obtain. It 
was not long, however, before my father bought a couple of 
other lots on Main street, on which he built substantial buildings 
— a dwelling (on lot 70), and a business house (on lot 62). ^ 
The first dwelling house wdiich he erected for his use (was on lot 
70, and) adjoined the lot on which the cabin stood. It was a high, 
story and a half brick, with a frontage on Main street of 36 feet. 
Including an addition in the rear, it was quite spacious for that 
day. Connected with this addition, by a covered passage, about 
12 feet by 15, was a long frame building of three rooms, that 
answered the purpose of a summer kitchen, milkhouse, store- 
house, smokehouse, etc. In the rear of the lot was a convenient 
stalile where the horses, cows, buggy, harness, saddles, hay and 
grain were kept. On the lot stood a variety of grafted fruit 
trees; and near the house was a cistern, and a deep well of cold 
water which we all thought the best in town. The business house 
aforesaid was two stories high, and contained two front business 
rooms, and several large rear, and upper rooms. Here my father 
did a large, but not a very profitable business, for he trusted nearly 
everybody, and many were unable to pay him, and avoided him 
till they desired additional credit, which they usually obtained 
before they had paid what they already owed. As he shrank 
from the idea of distressing any one, he rarely brought suit 
against those who thus got in his debt. 

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CHAPTER V 

SHORTLY after removing to Alarion he began to buy and 
sell live stock, mainly cattle and hogs. The best stock 
market at that day for the people of central and northern 
Ohio, was Detroit,^ owing probably to the wants of our garrison 
at Detroit, and the British garrison across the river. He found 
the business lucrative, and he prospered till a partner robbed him 
of tlie proceeds of a large drove of hogs. He had great confi- 
dence in the man, whose frank manners and generous traits made 
him very popular. This partner claimed that after selling the 
arove, the buyer disappeared without paying for it, which was 
false, for he got the money, put it down in his pocket, and after- 
wards spent it at the gaming table, and in other vicious ways. 

And this was the beginning of the man's downfall. His 
standard of morals was low, and he went rapidly down, sinking 
lower and lower, till one fine morning he was missing. He had 
forsaken a loyal wife, children of tender years, and gone away, — 
no one knew where. From this time he was never seen nor even 
heard of till our Ohio soldiers invaded Mexico in 1846-7, when 
he was recognized by an old acquaintance. How he had 
changed ! His manners were coarse, his appearance rough, 
and shabby ; he lived on the Rio Grande, in Texas, according to 
his story, and was an army sutler. He again disappeared from 
■sight as if swallowed up by an earthquake, and more than thirty 
years elapsed before he made himself known to his kindred. He 
then wrote to a son-in-law, of property and standing, a pitiful 
letter, describing his poverty and wretchedness, — asking assist- 
ance. It was sent to the unworthy old fellow, although during 

^ I find this scrap among my father's papers: "The following are the 
names of the men [Ohio stock dealers], who at Detroit, Michigan, presented 
the Hon. Daniel Webster with a silver headed cane which bore the inscrip- 
tion: 'Presented to Daniel Webster, by the Buckeyes, July 12th. 1836': 
Thomas Officer, Jacob Haldeman, T. J. Anderson, H. Scribner, and E. Doty 
of Marion county: S. S. Tipton, N. W. Brooks, and B. B. Brown, of 
Columbus; M. Merriman of Bellefontaine; J. W. Pearce, and Benj. Tallman, 
of Fairfield county; Thomas Hall of Sandusky county, A. Rowse, of Craw- 
ford county, and D. N. Darlington, of Delaware county." 

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his prolonged absence he had never given a dollar towards the 
support of his worthy family. 

My father continued in the cattle trade till within a few years 
of his death. After the introduction of railroads, if he failed to- 
find a satisfactory buyer at home, he shipped his stock to New 
York. Since coming to Marion he had dealt in furs, and con- 
tinued in the trade the greater part of his life. For many years 
he was the largest fur buyer in Central Ohio. He bought in 
Ohio, Kentucky, Western Virginia, Indiana and Michigan, and 
made a great deal of money. The Ewings of Ft. Wayne, and 
the Hollisters of Buffalo, were probably the only men who did 
a larger business of the kind in the same field. During several 
seasons he also bought wool. He was a buyer of wdd lands, and 
some years owned a good many tracts in Ohio, and the western 
states. He also bought "tax titles," many years, and gained in 
this way, although he permitted more than half of the owners 
in fee, to redeem on repayment of purchase money with simple 
interest. 

After paying large sums (for that day) as surety, and other 
reverses, he concluded to utilize his knowledge of the hatter's 
art, and started a hat factory in Marion, the only one within a 
radius of many miles. He carried on this business, employing a 
good many skilled mechanics, till 1844, when he discontinued 
the manufacture, and bought his merchandise in New York and 
Philadelphia generally, but occasionally in Cincinnati. His sales- 
room, and manufacturing establishment, were in a commodious 
building, on a lot of his own, (lot No. 62), in the business part 
of the town, on Mam street; but when he quit manufacturing, he 
changed his location, removing about the year 1845, to a con- 
venient storeroom which he rented, on the southeast corner of 
Main and Center streets. He now enlarged his business, and 
dealt in hats, caps, boots, shoes, clothing, furs, etc. In a few 
years he removed from the corner of Main and Center, to a 
storeroom in a central location, on the west side of Main street. 
He kept this kind of a store for nine or ten years, then sold out, 
and was never again interested in a shop or store of any kind. 
But, as already stated, he continued for several years to buy furs 
in Winter, and cattle and sometimes other live stock, the rest of 
the year. 

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During his whole manly life he took a deep interest in the- 
politics of his town, county, state and country. He never how- 
ever, made or tried to make money by holding office. He was 
never much richer for the offices he held, for they yielded him 
little income. He was in fact, a disinterested lover of his coun- 
try, which he wished to see great and glorious, and in striving 
to advance her moral and material interests he rarely if ever 
thought of self-aggrandizement, or of any profit that might 
accrue to himself. The general elections gave him deep con- 
cern, for which he strove diligently to prepare the people, and he 
was seldom idle on election day. He was a Whig, and after- 
wards a Republican, and ever used his influence to induce the 
people to vote the ticket of his choice. 

He supported Henry Clay for the Presidency in 1824, John 
Ouincy Adams in 1828, Henry Clay again in 1832, William 
Henry Harrison, his father's comrade-in-arms, and friend, in 1836 
and 1840, Henry Clay, the third time, in 1844, Zachary Taylor 
in 1848, Winfield Scott in 1852. John Charles Fremont in 1856, 
Abraham Lincoln in i860 and 1864, and Ulysses S. Grant in 
1868. He seriously believed that the salvation of the country 
depended on the ascendency of his party. 

Thrice was he chosen by the legislature, associate judge of 
Marion county. It was under the old constitution, and each 
term was seven years. Here follows a copy of his first commis- 
sion : 

"IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE 
STATE OF OHIO. 

Ohio Coat of Arms. Robert Lucas, 

GOVERNOR AND COMM.\NDER-IN-CHIEF OF SAID STATE. 

To all who shall see tliesc presents — greeting: 

Knoiv ye, That Thomas J. Anderson, having been duly elected to the 
office of Associate Judge in and for the county of Marion, and State afore- 
said ; 

Therefore, by virtue of the power vested in me b}' the Constitution 
and Laws of said State, I do hereby commission him, the said Thomas 
J. Anderson, as Associate Judge for said county, hereby authorizing and 
empowering him to execute and discharge all and singular the duties- 
appertaining to said office, and to enjoy all the privileges and immuni- 

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ties thereof, for seven years from the date hereof, agreeably to the 
constitution and laws of the State. 

THE GREAT SEAL OF "| In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my 
THE STATE OF OHIO. V name, and caused the great seal of the State 
1802. j of Ohio, to be affixed, at Columbus, the elev- 

enth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-four, and in the fifty-eighth year of the Independence 
of the United States of America. 

By the Governor : Robert Lucas. 
B. HiNKSON, Secretary of State." 

Thomas J. Anderson's second commission as Associate Judge, 
is dated February 23d, 1841, and is signed by the governor, 
Thomas Corwin, and the secretary of state, WilHam Trevitt. 
His third commission as Associate Judge, is dated January 11, 
1848, and is signed by the governor, WilHam Bebb, and the sec- 
retary of state, Samuel Galloway. Before John Bartram, J. P., 
of Marion, Thomas J. Anderson, Associate Judge, "was af- 
firmed March 5, 1834, to support the constitution," etc., and on 
the back of his first commission, the affirmation entire, appears. 
Befofe Peter Beerbower, J. P., of Marion, Judge Anderson was 
-szvorn Febrtiary 25, 1841, to support the constitution, etc., and 
the oath of office, in his own writing, appears on the back of his 
second commission. 

The following official oath, written by himself, is on the back 
of his third commission : 

"State of Ohio, Marion county, ss. 

On the 17th day of January, A. D. 1848, before the subscriber, Pres- 
ident Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, personally 
appeared Thomas J. Anderson, who was sworn to support the Constitu- 
tion of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Ohio, and 
to administer justice without respect to persons, and to do equal right 
to the poor and to the rich, and faithfully and impartially to discharge 
and perform all the duties incumbent on him as an Associate Judge for 
said county, according to the best of his abilities and understanding, 
agreeably to the Constitution and laws of this State. 

Given under my hand this the day and year above written. 

O. BOWEN, 
Pres. Judge, of said county.'' 

He had a judicial turn of mind and generally gave entire sat- 
jsfaction as a judge. And so far as I can learn, at each recur- 

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ring period, the office came to him without sohcitation. He en- 
countered httle o])position before the legislature, for he was a 
broad man. lilK^ral and charitable, and in his palmy days made 
a good appearance. As he was resident judge, (he resided at 
the county seat), he had nuich to do. In vacation, his judicial 
services were often sought in habeas corpus, injunction, lunacy, 
and other proceedings ; and all probate, testamentary, and other 
matters that now come before the probate judge, and many 
matters that come before the county commissioners, were then 
heard and adjudicated by the Common Pleas Judges. 

After his last term as judge had expired, he was appointed^ 
by Henry Hain, county auditor, A. Sharp, county treasurer, and 
J. H. Barker, county recorder, district assessor, (appraiser of 
real estate), in the second district, composed of IMarion, Big 
Island, and Grand Prairie townships, in ^Marion county, O. He 
held the office of justice of the peace, in Marion for several years; 
and afterwards was U. S. Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, 
for Marion county. By appointments of the Court of Common 
Pleas, before and during the Civil War, he held the office of mas- 
ter commissioner,- of Marion county, for several terms of three 

^ I have in my possession the original appointment, in due form of law, 
•duly signed. 

2 The following entries appear on the journal of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas of Marion Co.. C)hio: 

"Special Term of the Court, June 25th, 18.58. 
Present: William I^awrence, Judge; John R. Garberson, Clerk; W. B. 
Lewis, Sheriff; A. Osborn, Pros. Attorney. 

'Matter of Thomas J. Anderson: ] Appointment as Master 
appointment of. / Commissioner. 

On motion to the Court, Thomas J. Anderson, was this day appointed 
a Master Commissioner of Marion County, for the term of three years from 
this date. Whereupon said Thomas J. Anderson appeared in open court, 
and was duly sworn as such Master Commissioner, and gave bond in the 
sum of Five Thousand Dollars, with L. C. Hains. and Samuel Tillotson, 
as sureties, to the acceptance of the court.' This entry was made in 
Chambers, June 25th, 1858." 

The following entry is just below the foregoing on the journal: 

"Special Term of the Court, June 25, 1858. 
•:\Iatter of Thomas J. Anderson: Commissioner of Insol- 

vent Debtors. 
On motion to the court, Thomas J. Anderson, was this day appointed 
Commissioner of Insolvent Debtors. Whereupon said Thomas J. Anderson, 
appeared in open court, and was duly sworn according to law, and gave 
bond in the sum of One thousand Dollars, with Samuel Tillotson as his 
surety, which is approved by the court'." 

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years each. At a special term of the Court of Common Pleas, he 
was appointed on the 25th of June, 1858, commissioner of insol- 
vent debtors, for Marion county. During his long residence in 
Marion, he held other civil offices, besides offices in his party 
organization, in his church, and in the only secret society he ever 
joined — the Masonic. For many years he was an Anti-Mason, 
but finally became reconciled to the order, and joined Marion 
Lodge No. 70, A. F. and A. M. Like his father, grandfather, 
and great-grandfather, he was an active, earnest member of the 
Blue Lodge, but never cared to take any of the higher degrees 
in Masonry. To accommodate friends, he sometimes qualified 
as executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, trustee, etc. 

"Court of Common Pleas, Marion County, O., April Term, 1861. 
April 15, 1861, present: William Lawrence, Judge: Philip Dombaugh, 
Clerk; David Epler, Sheriff: A. Ostaorn, Pros. Attorney. Monday, May 27, 
1861, one. o'clock P. M. Court met pursuant to adjournment. Present same 
as heretofore. 

'Matter of Thomas J. Anderson: Appointment of as Master 

Commissioner. 

On motion to the Court, Thomas J. Anderson, was this day appointed 
a Master Commissioner, for Marion county, for three years from this date. 
Whereupon said Thomas J. Anderson, appeared in open court and was- 
duly sworn as such Master Commissioner, and gave bond in the sum of 
Five Thousand Dollars, with Heman Scott, and I. Mouser, as sureties, 
to the acceptance of the court.' May 27, April Term, 1861. Court adjourned 
without day. 

William Lawrence, 
Judge, Court of Com. Pleas." 



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CHAPTER VI 

Y father wrote with ease, and for many years carried on a 
voluminous correspondence with men of prominence in 
church and state ; and only a short time before his death 
had in his possession hundreds of friendly letters from persons 
more or less eminent. A few months before my sister Annie died, 
she destroyed^ nearly all of these letters, and mine from Europe, 
written during the Rebellion to my parents and others. A few 
were saved, one of which from Hon. Joseph Ridgway, M. C, of 
Columbus, who in 1840 represented Franklin, Delaware, Marion, 
and other counties in Congress, is here given as a relic, and to 
illustrate the politics of the times. 

"Washington City, March 2, 1840. 

Dear Sir : — Great exertions are now being made by the Whig mem- 
bers of Congress, to spread useful political information in all parts 
■of the United States, until the close of the Presidential election. Amongst 
other means of' spreading useful information, they have adopted the 
Madisonian newspaper, as the organ of communication, to support the 
election of Harrison and Tyler. This paper will be conducted with much 
ability until the close of the campaign, and in orde ■ to promote the cause 
for which we are in common contending, I take the liberty of enclosing 
to you a prospectus of the Madisonian, and have to ask of you to have the 
goodness to circulate it about Marion, and to procure as many sub- 
scribers to it as can 1)e obtained in that section of country. 

The members here, are corresponding witli their respective Whig 
friends, throughout the Union. This gives us at this point perhaps a 
better chance of procuring the best information in relation to the pros- 
pects of the result of the ensuing Presidential election, than at any other 
one place in the United States ; and it gives me great pleasure to state 
to you, and our whig friends in Marion, that the prospect of carrying 
our candidate into the Presidential chair, on the 4th of March, 1841, is 
almost beyond a doubt. The information which we now possess indicates 
very clearly that all the states north of this place will give a majority for 
General Harrison, except New Hampshire, and Maine, and the few Whigs 
here from the latter state say, from the daily changes which are taking 
place in favor of Harrison, that that state will also give him a majority by 
next fall. 

^ My sister Annie said she did not want them to fall into the hands 
of strangers. It was a serious mistake. 

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The states of Virginia, North Carolina, and Louisiana, are now- 
claimed for Harrison, by their Whig members here. The Tennessee Whig 
members say that whole neighborhoods of original Jackson men, have 
lately declared for Harrison, and they now feel confident that he will 
carry the state. Kentucky, and Indiana, are perfectly safe for Harrison. 
Illinois, and Michigan, it is supposed will co.me out right by November 
next. The latter we now know has a Whig Legislature. 

The proceedings of the immense ingathering of the people at their 
late convention in Columbus, are just now appearing in the public 
journals of the Atlantic States. Those patriotic proceedings, will give 
an immense impulse to our common cause, along the whole range of 
Atlantic States, as well as in other States in the Union. They indorse 
the character and standing which General Harrison possesses in his own 
state, and stamp the impress of falsehood on the thousand slanders 
that have been got up, and are still being got up to injure his reputa- 
tion. The proceedings of the fifteen or twenty thousand freemen who- 
assembled at Columbus, on the 22d of February, to sanction the nom- 
ination of Harrison,^ for the Presidency, will do more to check the 
slanders of the pensioned press of the East, than all that could have 
been written by his friends contradicting them. 

With my respects to my friends about Marion, I must close. 
Yours truly, 

J. RiDGWAY. 

Hon. T. J. Anderson, Marion, O." 

Mr. Ridgway- wrote a plain hand on good gilt-edgSd letter 
paper of large size. 

1 This great Convention that met in Columbus, February 22, 1840,. 
to indorse and ratify tlie nomination of Gen. Harrison, had the enthusi- 
a.=tic support of the Whigs of Ohio and the West. David W. Deshler, 
father of William G. Deshler, labored faithfully to make it an influential 
and powerful factor in securing the success of the Whig National ticket 
in November. He was president of a Franklin County political organiza- 
tion whose mission was to bring about that result. David W. Deshler, a 
wealthy banker, died at his home in Columbus, Ohio, August 2, 1869. He 
was then president of the Franklin National Bank, and a leading, promin- 
ent citizen. 

- Joseph Ridgway, manufacturer, was born May 6, 1783, on Staten 
Island, N. Y. Some time after coming to Columbus, he erected his famous 
foundry — in 1822. He did a very large and profitable business, was of 
great benefit to Columbus, became wealthy and prominent, was elected to 
the Ohio legislature in 1828 and in 1830, and represented (the 8th) the 
Columbus District in Congress from 1837 to 1843. He was a Quaker, and 
a bachelor, and an honest man, and died at his home in Columbus, Janu- 
ary 31, 1861. Before coming to Columbus he failed for a large sum: but a 
few years before his death he went east, hunted up his creditors, or their 
heirs, and paid every cent, principal and Interest, amounting to many 
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Here is a letter from the late Rev. James Gilruth, of the M. 
E. Church, which wiH no doubt interest his old friends yet liv- 
ing in Marion county, and others : 

"Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa, March 23, 1854. 
Hon. T. J. Anderson: 

Dear Brother: — Your kind letter was received long since, so long 
that I am ashamed of my negligence in answering it. It was not in- 
tentional, but waiting for a more convenient opf ortunity it was put ofif 
from time to time under a pressure of business. Asking you to forgive 
me this time, I hope to do better hereafter. Our family are all well. My 
own health is about as usual, but I find that the old man is creeping 
on me, stiffening my limbs, dimming my eyes, and bleaching my hair. 
I work hard, preach about every Sabbath, get along slowly in business, 
keep out of debt. 

Have 300 acres under fence, and 75 under cultivation. Have a good 
farm house 20 by 40, two stories high, with an L kitchen, 15 by 20, story 
and a half high. Have a good cellar, a good well, and the commence- 
ment of a small orchard. Hope to set out more trees this spring. Want 
to break more ground the ensuing summer, and start a hedge to growing. 
I have no barn as yet, only a shed for a stable. But, Brother Anderson, 
ever sine the death of Harriet,^ I have been about prostrated in my feel- 
ings. In business, where active energy is required, mole hills appear 
mountains. If this feeling should not subside, a little business will go a 
great way with me. 

Land is high, very high near town. An improved farm, lying between 
my farm and town, (adjoining me on the south), was sold over 
a year ago, for near $G0.00 per acre. For 80 acres, adjoining me on 
the east, the owner was offered, a few days ago, $75.00 per acre, and 
refused it ; but since told me he thought he would accept it. Six or 
eight miles from town, good prairie may be bought for ten to twelve 
dollars per acre, according to location. 

■ As respects the health of these parts, I am of the opinion that no 
part of Ohio exceeds it. Tiie country is a beautiful rolling prairie, with 
here and there a grove of timber. Several beds of stone-coal have 
been discovered, and worked, six or seven miles from Davenport, but 
the veins are rather thin. Nor is the coal of first rate quality, but does 
pretty well as fuel m stoves and grates. This country is rather deficient 
in good mill-seats, and what we have are in the hands of speculators, 
who will neither improve, nor sell at a fair price to those that would. 

Davenport is a beautiful site, and is improving rapidly. The country 
round, is also rapidly improving. There is hardly a house to be found 
for rent, nor has there been since I moved to the place. At Davenport, 
the Mississippi is nearly a mile wide. It freezes over every winter so 
that teams can cross freely. I get most of my fire wood from a small' 

^ A beloved daughter. 

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piece of timber land that I own, some five miles below town, on the 
Illinois side. I hauled over enough this winter to do for a year. 

I have not yet done much toward stocking my farm with cattle, sheep 
or hogs. My aim has been to prepare the place, so that I can feed and 
shelter, pasture and winter stock well. Cattle are very dear. Cows range 
from $'20 to $35 per head; oxen from $60 to $110 per yoke. Horses are 
also equally dear. Beef is worth $5.00 per cwt., and pork $4. Wheat 
has advanced, and sells from 85 cents to $1.00 per bushel. Corn sells at 
25, oats 22. Flour commands from $6 to $6.50 per bbl. Potatoes sell 
for 25 cents per bushel. Butter brings 20 cents per lb. 

The railroad is now finished from Chicago to Rock Island, opposite 
Davenport, and we are daily entertained with the loud whistle of the 
locomotive. A bridge is being built for this railroad across the Missis- 
sippi, uniting Rock Island and this place. Another railroad is under way, 
that is, being built from this place to Iowa City, thence to be extended to 
Council Bluffs. 

Respecting my family : On the day Harriet died, Naomi's husband, 
Sylvester R. Hayes, also died. They died of cholera. Naomi was left 
with two little boys. They reside with us. Matilda married George 
Carpenter, a young Presbyterian preacher, and they now live in Tarlton, 
Ohio. His father lives near Worthington, Ohio. In his last letter, George 
informed me that he was going to Kingston, Ohio, to take charge of a 
Presbjfterian seminary. Pauline is at home. I have employed her to 
keep a school in one of my rooms, that some children may be taught 
who have no chance to attend school elsewhere. She is a member of 
our church, and soundly converted I believe. Christiana lives at home. 
They are now receiving lessons in singing and piano music. James is 
a brisk little fellow, and can manage a horse, or a team, equal to the 
most of men. I expect to send him to college next summer. Thomas, 
if he have a fair chance, will make a scholar I think. He has also a 
mechanical turn. My wife's health is so feeble^ that she can stand but 
little fatigue of any kind. 

Respecting religion, I view it as in a moderate condition in general. 
A few join the church, so that it may perhaps be said that there is a 
slight increase. Deep heart-felt piety is not so common as desirable. 
In town' we have eight or nine denominations. We have also Masons, 
Odd Fellows, and Sons of Temperence, and a few anti-slavery men. 

1 Mrs. Mary Gilruth, daughter of Thomas and Mary Brace§ Westlake, 
was born October 2, 1801 in Greenbrier county, Va. She died in Chillicothe, 
Ohio, at the home of Rev. Geo. Carpenter, D. D., and his estimable and gifted 
wife, Matilda Gilruth, June 19, 1895. Like most feeble people, Mrs. Mary Gil- 
ruth (who was a dear friend of my mother,) lived to a great age. Matilda 
Gilruth was born at Granville, Ohio, August 12, 1831, and was married to Rev. 
George Carpenter at Davenport, Iowa, August 10, 1852. Their son. Dr. W. 
B. Carpenter, M. D., of Columbus, Ohio, is a popular and highly respected 
physician. 

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Please let me hear from you. Don't do as I have done, but write 
•soon. Tell us of our old acquaintances, — who have died, who moved 
.avifay, etc. Respects to Mrs. A. and the children. 

Yours fraternally, 

J.\MES GlLRUTH."^ 

Few were more prominent in the M. E. Church, than this 
itinerant preacher, about whose fortunate investments, generous 
and charitable disposition, physical courage, and mighty feats of 
•strength, innumerable stories were once in circulation.^ 

1 As I have elsewhere said, my parents were united in marriage by 
ibis old time preacher. He and his wife often visited at our house, and 
were ever welcome. My parents considered them true friends, and Chris- 
tians, and enjoyed their society. The Rev. James Gilruth was born in the 
Fort at Belville, Wood county, 'Va., January 29, 1793, and died June 2, 1873, 
at his countryseat — Pleasantland — near Davenport, Iowa. 

His widow, Mrs. James Gilruth, in her 94th year, published her "Rec- 
ollections," in the W. C. Advocate. Her article in that paper of June 12, 
1S95, refers to the marriage of my parents which took place at the M. E. 
parsonage, in Adelphi, August 7, 1825. Mr. Gilruth was then preaching at 
that place. "In this humble room" says Mrs. Gilruth, "Thomas J. Ander- 
son, afterwards Judge Anderson of Marion, and Miss Nancy Dunlevy were 
married, and spent the night. Mrs. Anderson was an intimate friend of 
mine until her death." My mother, who was an orphan, owned valuable 
landed property near Adelphi. Rev. James Gilruth labored with zeal and 
ability all his manly life as a minister of the Gospel, but received small 
compensation as he was considered a man of means. His parents, Thomas 
and Marion Ingles Gilruth, were natives of Scotland. His father was a 
famous hunter, and on a hunting expedition on the west side of the Ohio 
river when his son James was born. At this time the Indians were hostile, 
and on the war-path, and his escape from capture was almost a miracle. 

- "The first pastor of the M. E. Church [at Marion,] after organiziijg, 
was Rev. James Gilruth, a large, powerfully built man, weighing about 
240 pounds, who once threw a threatening bully over a fence in the pres- 
ence of a crowd assembled to witness a fight. The bully had boasted that 
he was going to whip that Methodist preacher. Mr. Gilruth was a man of 
sterling good sense, a deep thinker, a fine speaker, social and beloved by 
saint and sinner. He went to Iowa about the year where he pros- 
pered, and enjoyed good health to extreme old age." History of Marion 
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CHAPTER VII 

IT is quite true that Judge Anderson never received a liberal 
education. He came up in the wilderness, where learning 
was rarely sought or found. He was however a self-made 
man, but of this, unlike many vulgar, offensive pretenders, he 
never boasted. Feeling himself the need of a better education, he 
was an early promoter of the common school system, and one of 
its warmest friends. Away back in the twenties, he advocated 
giving to all the children of the State a common school education 
at the public expense.^ Nor was he adverse to a higher educa- 
tion. On the contrary it was his delight to encourage the in- 
genuous youths of his acquaintance to seek all the advantages 
conferred by a thorough scientific and classical education. He 
gave his own children the education they sought and that he 
could afford. He was a school director at an early day, and for 
many years, and one of the founders and trustees of the Marion 
Academv, and was justly regarded as a stanch friend of the 
schools of the place. He spent time and money to foster and 
sustain these schools, and to develop an educational spirit in 
the community. 

Nor were his efforts, and the co-operation of his friends, 
without gratifying results. The educational question grew, and 
advanced, till it occupied the minds of the people : it became dom- 
inant : schools sprang up in every quarter, and the academy rose 
to be a flourishing institution, the pride and ornament of town 
and county. Scholarship was at a premium ; and the county of 
Marion, though sparsely settled, turned out young men of bril- 
liant and solid acquirements. But a change came. The old dis- 
trict school, the more exclusive select school, and the academy of 
which the founders were proud, finally yielded to the Union 
Public School- — the crystallization of the popular educational 

1 The act passed by our General Assembly in 1825, in the interest of 
common schools, was far more Important than any previous legislation 
on the subject. 

2 It was the act of 1853, entitled "An act to provide for the reorganiza- 
tion, supervision, and maintenance of our common schools," that placed 

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idea — supposed to reflect the progressive development, and ad- 
vancing- intelhgence of a democratic age. 

The Public Schools — elementary and high schools — ■ are not 
unpopular in our State to-day, but a recent Act of the Legisla- 
ture, (passed February 22, 1887,) repealing the law (sec. 4008 of 
the Revised Statutes,) that made provision for "separate schools 
for colored children," together with other causes, two of which 1 
shall enumerate: i, elaborate instruction in the high schools in 
the higher and ornamental branches of learning, and 2, the lux- 
urious and expensive mode of carrying on our public schools, 
have tended many think to alienate the affections of a portion 
of our people. The system however, is probably nearer right 
than the people who administer it. 

Being a Methodist, my father was anxious to see the Ohio 
Wesleyan University at Delaware, on a safe and solid footing, 
and at the beginning and afterwards did what lay in his power to 
promote its growth and prosperity. The principal professors 
were his friends, and he found pleasure in aiding an enterprise so 
near their hearts. The first president of the University, Edward 
Thomson, D. D., LL. D.. later one of the bishops of the M. E. 
Church, was frequently his guest. Dr. William L. Harris, who 
died a bishop, the brilliant Dr. L. D. McCabe, long acting presi- 
dent, and other members of the faculty visited at the house of my 
parents. 

But the man in Marion, above all others, who gave his time 
and talents to help forward this institution of learning is yet liv- 
ing, and in full possession of all his powers. I refer to the able 
lawyer. Gen. James H. Godman,i j-,q^ ^ resident of Columbus. 
His bright, scholarly son. Rev. William D. Godman, D. D., was 
the first graduate of the O. W. Universtiy:^ graduated August 
5- 1846. 

our common school system on a higher plane than ever before, and 
v/rought the ruki of most of the other schools of the state. Prof. B. A. 
Hinsdale, in the Ohio Arch, and Historical Quarterly, says: "As the 
public schools increased in number, and improved in quality, the academies 
began to lose ground. Wholly dependent as a rule on tuition charges for 
existence, they could not compete with free schools of equal grade. The 
law of 1853 gave them the finishing stroke." 

1 He died since the above was written, October 4, 1891, in Columbus, O., 
and was buried in Marion. 

2 Henry Clay, and John Marshall, sons of James H. Godman, were later 
graduates of the O. W. U. 

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My father was in every sense a social being. He loved to 
associate with those bound to him by the ties of blood : the so- 
ciety of his own family, around his own hearth, was a delight. 
And it may be said generally, that he enjoyed the companionship 
of friends, and neighbors ; and of his church, his party, and his 
lodge associates, with rare exceptions. He attended many par- 
ties and gave many, and was never happier than when his house 
was full of smiling guests. He never considered, nor afterwards 
referred to the expense. Whether in a drawing-room, or at a 
barbecue, in a political meeting, a Masonic Lodge, or a place of 
worship, he found enjoyment. 

Riding and driving about the country, which his business re- 
quired, gave him pleasure ; and before his health gave way he 
found it very pleasant to visit relatives, all of whom resided at a 
distance except his brother John,i to whom he was devotedly at- 
tached. His visits to the capitals of our state and nation, where 
he made many acquaintances, and renewed the friendships of 
other days, were episodes and experiences never forgotten, for he 
came into contact with people of prominence, whose conversa- 
tion and hospitality he appreciated. The occasional calls upon 
him in the course of business, to go to the large cities of the 
country, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and others,^ he 
obeyed with pleasure, for they broadened his vision, and broke 
the monotony of village and rural life. A journey to the far 
west made in 1858, covering two or three months, he thoroughly 
enjoyed, and was fond of recalling its pleasing and striking in- 
cidents. 

His intimate friends whether religious or otherwise were clean 
characters. It mattered little to him whether an associate was 

1 John Anderson, born on the Anderson Bottom, on the Potomac river, 
March 4, 1803, died in Marion, January .*?, 1888. He spent his time from 
April 7, 1806, till he was 21, on his father's farm in Fairfleld county, O. He 
visited his brother in Marion, in 1828, and removed to his fertile farm near 
Marion, in the early thirties. He was a good brother, and a good citizen. 
His sons were Francis M., Capt. Thomas J., Levi R., and John M. : his 
daughters, Minerva J., Susan, Ellen, and Margaret A. John Anderson was 
married to Miss Martha Roult, on her father's farm in Hocking county, 
Ohio, January 20, 1829. 

- I think it was in the fall of 1850, that Judge John Bartram of Marion, 
and my father went to Cincinnati as delegates to the Grand Masonic 
Lodge. My father having secured me (through the influence of his friend 
Tom. Carney, since Governor of Kansas,) a clerkship in the great whole- 
sale dry goods house of R. B. Bowler & Co., of that city, took me along. 

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a Protestant. Catholic, Jew or infidel, provided he was an up- 
right agreeable man whose conversation was not defiled by coarse 
yarns, vulgar jokes, or vile insinuations. A tainted character 
he avoided, for there was nothing in common between them. He 
usually divined a man's impulses and character at once, and 
while he would trade with anybody he declined the intimacy of 
a person of low instincts. 

Many of his friends were unlettered men of small means, and 
humble callings, who earned their bread in the sweat of their 
brows, but they were men all the same, true men, high-minded 
men. often men of rarest Christian virtues and mental endow- 
ments. But he probably found the society of bright, witty, cul- 
tivated men and women, whose exceptional opportunities had 
given ease to their bearing and expression, and breadth and scope 
to their views, more entertaining, for the graceful style and 
sparkling sallies of such people, are ever -refreshing to a public 
man, and charm where they fail to instruct. 

As I have intimated it was in the family circle that he was at 
his best. Here he was gentle, indulgent, cheerful, playful, un- 
fettered, — wholly free from cant, arrogance, or a caviling, dis- 
putatious spirit. He was just but merciful, and destitute of 
vanity, or that weak worldly pride which flattery or fawning be- 
trays. Never puffed up but ever sincere and faithful, he set a 
proper example before "the rising generation." Beyond this he 
was indiiferent. He wanted no great fortune, no high position, 
nor did he assume or care to assume the character of a leader in 
the church or out of it. He had none of that kind of jMilesian 

We stopped at the Burnet House, then the most famous hostelry west of 
the Alleg-hanies. My father was in high spirits, and enjoyed "the work" 
of the Grand Masonic Lodge, as well as the festivities and banquets that 
followed, till I informed him that I did not want to accept the position, 
nor become a merchant's clerk. It affected him so that I was quite crest- 
fallen. I told him that I wanted to continue my studies, and then enter a 
law office as a student. He was sorely disappointed, but yielded to my en- 
treaties. Judge Bartram said I was making the mistake of my life in 
relinquishing that golden opportunity to become in time, one of the merch- 
ant-princes of a great city. One of the Bowler clerks, "Little" Ed. Howard, 
of Delaware, with whom I was acquainted, offered to show me the sights. 
One night we went to the National Theater, to see the popular actresses, 
Eliza Logan and Julia Dean, play: and between the acts, "Little" Ed. led 
the way to the cockloft of the theater,— the liahitiics of which so shocked 
me that I hurried away. 

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ambition. Hence he was approachable, tender, and loving ; and 
his home and home associations the delight of his life. 

In talking to or of my mother no unkind word ever passed his 
lips to my knowledge; and if he chose to reprove his children, 
which seldom happened, his mild fatherly speech and manner 
were more effective than the harshest treatment. My parents 
were never rough, nor their children impertinent. Good breed- 
ing begets no impertinence. Love reigned in our household, and 
was the talisman that subdued rutfled tempers, unlocked kindred 
hearts, and inspired hope amidst impending calamities, and when 
the ans^el of death drew near. 



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CHAPTER VIII 

ODERN club rooms were unknown to the pioneers/ but 
tap-rooms, and taverns (and they were plentiful enough,) 
were the haunts of dissipated loungers who were often 
an annoyance to travelers. But it sometimes happened that shops, 
stores, and offices, the proprietors of which were popular, agree- 
able men, became the resorts of the better class, where social, 
political and even religious cjuestions were discussed, as well as 
other matters of lower tone and tendency. Wit humor and 
friendly banter often enlivened the scene. Prominent among 
these respectable places of rendezvous, was the store room of 
"Old Billy Bain," later Bain & Willianis, and the law offices of 
Cooper K. Watson, and James H. Godman. Bain was an indus- 
trious, straightforward, old fashioned Scotch Presbyterian, whose 
scarred and uncommonly ugly face, and merry laugh, attracted 
the attention of strangers and children. He loved a good story, 
a good joke, and above all a glass of good old port or Madeira, 
with which the cellar under the store was always fairly well 
supplied. 

Benjamin H. Williams, commonly called Ben., Bain's errand 
boy and clerk, who finally became his partner, was even fonder of 
fun than the head of the house, but he found no pleasure in the 
wine cup. He was an industrious man of talent and enterprise, 
who deserved a better fate than overtook him in Marion, where 

1 Dr. Henry A. True, writing to Miss Sarah H. Reed, Dec. 9, 1839, says: 
"I send you a sketch of Marion. It contains abovit 1,000 inhabitants, and 
Is just now rather a testy and quarrelsome little community. 
The . . . people are enterprising, and respectable, and things are 
progressing. . . . [Here the doctor speaks of attending the Lyceum, 
and taking care of the girls. He was not yet married.] Cardplaying is a 
common amusement here; some carry it too far and are little better than 
blacklegs. . . . The courthouse is a very good building, equal in size 
and style to most of the courthouses in New England. Most of the houses 
marked two stories, are very good, as well as Joel D. Butler's. 
The brick seminary is in a retired situation; its . . . windows 
looking very mvich like a New York locofoco the morning after 
the election. . . . The 'stone jug', which serves to restrain the liber- 
ties of horsethieves and pickpockets, is built after the gothic order. 
One of the prisoners, the famous negro Bill, who was the occasion of the 
Marion riot, neai-ly made his escape by prying out a log." 

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he failed in business, which, with other misfortunes induced him: 
to remove to Indiana, and later to Illinois, where his sterling" 
qualities secured him recognition, and a prominent railroad po- 
sition, which placed him on his feet again. Like Old Billy 
Bain's, his face was somewhat disfigured, by the loss of an eye, 
and like his aged partner's, his standing in the Presbyterian 
church was high. In Bain's store as it was generally called, six 
evenings in every week, many of the choice spirits of the place 
met, and whiled away two or three glowing hours. Here or in 
Watson's office, or Godman's, or like place of resort, my father 
spent many pleasant evenings, but unless detained by business or 
pressing social engagements he usually returned home about 9 
o'clock. 

Thomas J. Anderson was a temperate man all his life. He 
was indeed fairly abstemious, for a good liver, till wounds,^ and 
the infirmities of age, made it advisable to use stimulants in mod- 
eration. Neither his tastes nor his habits led him to seek the ex- 
citements or associations of the bar-room. The society of bright, 
rather than convivial people, gave him pleasure ; he had warm de- 
voted friends, but no boon companions. 

I have seldom seen him angry, but when aroused by great 
provocation it was no easy thing to stand in his way. But even 
when excited and fired by indignation, his deportment was not 
unmanly. Whatever his passion, I never knew him to give way 
to profane swearing, nor under any circumstances descend to low 
or obscene language. One whose thoughts are not low, has no 
use for low words. At home or abroad, in the city or in the 
country, he was the same man,^ and as self-respect never forsook 
him, he was true to himself and to others. 

He was a God-fearing, but not a man fearing man, nor if 
smitten on the right cheek would he turn the other. A lover of 
peace, he never had quarrels with his neighbors nor with people 
of good standing ; but in the early settlement of Marion, it was 
sometimes necessary to defend himself, or his friends from the 
assaults of the rowdy element. This happened on a few occa- 

1 He twice had frightful falls from scaffolding giving way. Both of 
his legs and all of his ribs were broken, and his spine so wrenched and 
bruised that one stroke of paralysis extinguished the vital spark. 

2 "He was a very active man, positive in his manner, and of strict 
integrity." History of Marion county, p. 363. 

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sions only : at camp-meetings during periods of religious fervor ;. 
at political meetings when party spirit ran high ; during the great 
pro-slavery conspiracy and riot in Marion, in August 1839; on 
the road to Fort JMeigs, with General Harrison, in the political 
campaign of 1840, and in one or two other instances. His activ- 
ity and strength were such, that disturbers of die peace soon saw 
fit to let him alone. Society then needing protection, had little- 
use for a coward ; but an upright man of moral and physical' 
courage, was the Imlwark of the settlement. Of his prowess and 
feats of strength, he never spoke in my hearing, for his modest 
nature shrank from the notoriety they gained him.^ 

When my parents came to Marion in 1825, — twelve years 
after General Harrison, cii route to Detroit and Canada, en- 
camped amid the willows, in the bottom, at Jacob's well — there 
was a tribe of Delaware Indians or remnant of a tribe occupying 
a small Reservation in the corner of four townships : Grand Prai- 
rie and Salt Rock, in Marion ; and Pitt and Antrim, in Crawford, 
now in Wyandot County. Their Reservation, three miles square, 
was about nine miles north of Marion, the county seat. This 
they ceded to the general government by a treaty concluded at 
Little Sandusky, O., August 3, 1829, for the pittance of $3,000 in 
money, and a large body of fertile land west of the Missouri 
river, near Kansas City. The Delaware Indians, who left Ohio 
for their new home in 1830, acted wisely in selling, for in Ohio 
they were quite poor, and generally disliked, while in the west 
they were in good circumstances, and their neighbors, some of 
whom were relatives, were friendly. Game was then plentifid, 
and their hunting range almost imlimited. Besides when the ire 
of the more adventurous and ambitious became aroused, they had 
rare opportunities to engage in bouts, and forays, and scalping 
diversions. 

The Delaware Reserve in Marion, and Crawford Counties, ad- 
joined the Wyandot Reserve on the southeast, and the principal 

1 "Your father was a very active man of undoubted courage." This 
remark was made to me one evening in 1866, at Upper Sandusky, by Hon. 
Cooper K. Watson, who knew him well. He was attending court at that 
place, and we were talking about the attempt of Virginia slaye-hunters to 
kidnap Black Bill, in Marion, in August 1839, and the resulting riot. Watson 
in 1839 was prosecuting attorney of iViarion County, and my father was 
then on the Common Pleas Bench. 

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Delaware town, the only one of any importance, was Pipe- 
town, near a fine spring on the Wyandot Reservation, on the 
west ]jank of the Sandusky river, below the mouth of the 
Brokensword. The Wyandots kindly permitted the Delawares 
to occupy this site, which was named for Capt. Pipe, the cele- 
brated and merciless Indian chief, to whose commanding in- 
fluence Col. William Crawford owed his death at the stake, 
on the eleventh day of June, 1782. Capt. Pipe was present 
throughout the frightful holocaust, and enjoyed the horrible tor- 
tures and excruciating sufferings of the old Revolutionary hero, 
no less that the barbarous orgies of his own people. Capt. 
Pipe's son, Capt. Pipe, Jr.. in 1830 accompanied the Delaware 
Indians,^ who then numbered less than 400 souls, to their home 
beyond the Missouri. 

1 Beyond the Missouri, the Delaware Indians had a good opportunity 
to reciprocate tlie kindness shown them in Ohio by the Wyandots. When 
the latter reached the Indian Territory in July 1843. the civilized members 
of the tribe were dissatisfied. — not with their Reservation of 148,000 acres 
of choice land, but with its remoteness, savage conditions, and wild war- 
like neighbors. So the once poor, despised Delawares, came to their rescue, 
anfl sold them a part, of their own valuable Reservation, — 24,960 acres of 
fine, rolling- land, at the confluence of the Missouri and Kaw rivers, near 
Kansas City, on a part of which Wyandot City now; stands. But Warpole, 
the celebrated "war chief", after whom the Masonic Lodge in Upper San- 
dusky, Ohio, was named, and those who shared his views, and adhered to 
the ancient customs of the nation, settled on the Wyandot Reservation in 
the Indian Territory. Warpole, an honest man, and an eloquent speaker, 
had great influence with the "uncojiverted," and all who stood by the 
traditions of his race. 

When in Kansas, in 18.'57, I called to see a Miss Sallie Driver, who lived 
near Wyandot City, a beautiful Indian girl 19 or 20 years old, to whom my 
wife had given me a letter of introduction. She had been educated in Ohio, 
where she had many prominent relatives, and was not only refined, but 
cordial in her manners, and a most winning personality. Together we made 
calls on several Wyandot families who knew my father. While we were at 
the house of Mrs. Nancy Garrett, a sister of Gov. William Walker, formerly 
of Upper Sandusky, and the widow of George Garrett, in came Miss War- 
pole, a young Wyandot squaw of great size and stature. She arrested my 
attention immediately, for she was a daughter of Warpole, the noted chief, 
fully six feet tall, and her toggery and appearance unusual and striking. 
Her garments were made of nicely tanned, soft, yellowish doeskins, that 
resembled chamois, embroidered, and loudly decorated with tassels, beads, 
ribbons, the plumage of birds, and with pearls, and silver, and gold. She 
was no doubt dressed in the height of Indian fashion; and to me her un- 
looked-for apparel, including head and foot gear, was altogether gay and 
stunning. She had just arrived from the Wyandot Reservation in the Indian 
Territory, then considered a place for savages, and when introduced by Mrs. 
Garrett she scarcely condescended to notice me. "She is as proud as Luci- 
fer."' said Miss Sallie. 'and as foolish." I shall never forget Miss Warpole, 

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nor her picturesque appearance, in that Indian cabin, in the Wyandot forest, 
near tlie Missouri river, on that briglit summer morning in '57. 

Hard-by, in another cabin, lived anotlier Mrs. Garrett, ne6 Eliza Jane 
Ayres, sister of David Ayres oi Upper feandusky, Ohio, aunt of Mrs. Judge 
McClure, of Little Rock, and great aunt of several people living in Colum- 
bus. Ohio. The husband of this woman was Joel W. Garrett, a bright, dis- 
sipated Wyandot Indian, '±hey were married in Upper Sandusky. October 
9th, 1849, by Rev, Charles Thayer, D. D.. who, though very old is now (1903) 
preaching at Minneapolis, Joel's brother-in-law, "Old David Ayres," was 
tall, dark, straight, and looked like Solomon, the last of the Wyandots, who 
returned to the Sandusky Plains to die. Both Ayres and Solomon, were 
imposing looking men. Some thought Old David Ayres,. who lived to a 
great age, was part Indian, but that was not so. He left a queer will, which 
was set aside by a \Vyandot County jury, with the public approval. Hon. 
Curtis Beri-y. Jr.. of Upper Sandusky, Sept. 24, 1902. wrote me: "Joel W, 
Garrett's wife was a sister of Old David Ayres, She went to Kansas and 
remained, I believe Joel was a nephew of 'Old Bill Walker,' who visited 
here about '72 or '73. Speaking of whisky, I think 'Old Bill,' Joel, and all 
the Wyandots I knew loved it. « * * i am getting very near the 
stepping off place. I have the utmost taith in the Great 1 Am. and hope 
all is well." Hon. Curtis Berry, Jr., died a few days after writing the above 
letter. Nov. 22. 1902. A kind-hearted man. and a great sufferer. 

Mr. Henry True, of Marion, O., writing to me October 12, 1903, says: 
"Myself and family returned from the Pacific coast on last Friday, much 
improved in health. . . . While at Minneapolis I called at the home of 
Rev. Charles Thayer. He was out of town, but I saw his wife, who re- 
membered Mrs. Anderson, (your wife) very well. Mr, and Mrs. Thayer are 
now 84 years old." 

Mr, Thayer was (long ago) the Presbyterian preacher at Upper Sandusky, 
O,, for several years, and also kept a select school at that place, which my 
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CHAPTER IX 

THE \\'vandot, the last Indian Reservation^ in the State,, 
was twelve miles square, and was ceded to the United 
States, by treaty negotiated at Upper Sandusky, March 
i/. 1842. The number of ^^^•andot Indians in the year 1800, 
was 2,200. and on the twelfth day of July, 1843, ^vhen they took 
their departure for their lands beyond the Missouri (in the Indian 
Territory), less than 800 remained. It is common to attribute 
this decline to whisky, but the true causes were contagious dis- 
eases, and consumption. The pioneers, who felled the forests and 
improved the land, drank more than the Indians, yet they increased 
and multiplied. Upper Sandusky, near the center of the Reser- 
vation, w^as the only Wyandot town, for the other haunts of 
the Indians were just over the border : Little Sandusky, Bow- 
shersville, Brownstown. ^larseilles. Crawfordsville, Tymochtee, 
Xiggertown. AlcCutchenville, and other points. 

About thirteen miles north of the Wyandot Reserve, was 
the Seneca. The Seneca Indians owned forty thousand acres 
of excellent land on the east side of the Sandusky river, in 
Seneca and Sandusky Counties, which they ceded to the United 
States, by treaty concluded at Washington, D. C, February 28, 
1 83 1. Whereupon in June, 1832. they all joined their brethren 
in the far west. None remained behind. This remnant of a 
once powerful tribe had dwindled to 500 souls.^ A few Dela- 
ware Indians, and more \\'yandots, refused to leave the homes 
and graves of their forefathers, and remained behind for many 
years. A few may still be living in Wyandot county, and pos- 
sibly in other parts or our state. 

Before their removal it was not an uncommon sight to see 
Delawares, and \\'yandots in [Marion, where they came to sell 
or barter peltry, moccasins, beadwork, game, cranberries, etc. 
They sometimes got very drunk, and whooping like savages rode 



^ The southern boundary of the Wyandot Reserve was about three- 
fourths of a mile north of the north line, (as it then stood), of Marion 
County. Ohio. 

- The Senecas settled on the Cowskin and Neosho rivers in the Indian- 
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their ponFes at breakneck speed np and down Main street. But 
some of the Wyandot Indians were well educated, and some 
were pious, and better than the white people around them. Wy- 
andot women of my acquaintance were handsome, refined, skill- 
ful at needle work, and possessed other accomplishments. In 
conversation their voices were ever low, soft, and musical. 

There was a Methodist Mission at Upper Sandusky, in 
which my father, who was a friend of the missionaries as well 
as of the Indians, took a deep interest. He was intimately ac- 
quainted with all the missionaries except the first, and always 
spoke of them as earnest, able men, well qualified for their sacred 
duties.! Yhe first Methodist missionary, Johij Stewart, who 
preached as early as 1816 to the Delawares and the Wyandots, 
was erratic and uncultivated, but full of piety and zeal, and did 
^ood work. The Indians loved to hear him,^ for his voice 
was melody itself, and bis singing charmingly seductive. Rev. 
James B. Finley, an able, educated man, appointed missionary in 
1822, was a celebrated preacher, whose burning zeal and mov- 
ing eloquence gave him great power over the masses. He was 
an author as well as an orator, and his Wyandot ]Mission. Life 
Among the Indians, Sketches of Western Methodism, Memorials 
•of Prison Life, Autobiography, etc., are still popular works. 
Finley's successor. Rev. James Giiruth, appointed October 4, 

1826, at the M. E. Conference at Hillsboro, was an able, popular 
preacher, whose life and character I have elsewhere portrayed. 

Of the several missionaries who succeeded him, the most 
saintlike and eloquent was Rev. Russell Bigelow, appointed in 

1827. He died in 1S35, at the early age of forty-two, before 
his fame had attained its zenith, but was probably the most ef- 
fective pulpit orator in the state. The late Bishop Edward 
Thomson said of him. "As a preacher I have yet to hear his 
equal." Bigelow was a preacher of singular eloquence, almost 

1 The following are the Methodist ministers who labored as missionaries 
among the Wyandot Indians: John Stewart. Moses Hinkle, James B. Finley, 
James Giiruth, Charles Elliott, Jacob Hooper, James C. Brook. Russell 
Bigelow, Thomas Thompson, B. Boydson, Elnathan C. Gavitt, T. Simms, S. 
P. Shaw, S. M. Allen, and James Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler was appointed in 
1839, and remained with the Wyandots several years, and until they were 
comfortably settled in Kansas. 

-See painting by Rev. N. B. C. Love, D. D., representing Stewart preach- 
ing to the Indians. See Finley's Wyandot Mission. 

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as celebrated in the early annals of the church in Ohio, as any 
of the eloquent divines who have adorned the American pul- 
pit.i He and other ministers and missionaries, often preached 
in my father's dwelling house in Marion, before the old stone 
M. E. Church edifice was built. 

Among the Wyandots^ were men and women who were wel- 

1 Bigelow Chapel, in Columbus, was named for him. John Mclntire 
Armstrong of the Wyandot nation, who was educated at the Norwalk Sem- 
inary, and a member of the Ohio bar, married Lucy, daughter of Russell 
Bigelow. Mrs. Lucy Bigelow Armstrong, in a letter to me dated June 1, 
1889, says of her husband: "His mother named him after John Mclntire, 
who married her cousin Sarah Zane, of Wheeling. John Mclntire and 
Jonathan Zane were the original proprietors of Zanesville, Ohio. My hus- 
band Jolm Mclntire Armstrong was born Oct. 7, 1813, near Zanesfield, Logan 
Co., O. He died Apr. 11, 1852, at my mother's house, near Mansfield, O. 
He was a lawyer, read law under Judge Stewart, at Mansfield, and was 
admitted to the bar by Judge Burnett in April 1839, at Cincinnati. Was the 
nominee of the Whig party of Crawford Co., O., in 1839, for prosecuting 
attorney, and ran ahead of his ticket. * * * jje was one-eighth 
Indian, his only ancestor who had Indian blood having been his maternal 
grandmother who was one-half French and one-half Wyandot. * * • 
William Walker was born in 1800 near Detroit. He died in February 1874, 
in Kansas City, Mo., being 74 years old. * * * -p^g remnant of the 
Wyandot Nation, is in the Indian Territory, and keep up the National or 
Tribal organization there. Address Grand River P. O., Ind. Ter. Silas 
Armstrong, (son of Silas) is an educated man, and may give you informa- 
tion. * * * -pj^g Wyandots started from Upper Sandusky, for the 
west, the 6th or 7th of July 1843. One boat arrived at the western line of 
the state of Missouri, the 28th day of July, and the other, the one on 
which my husband and family traveled, the 31st, the day I was 25 years old. 
I was not with the nation when it started, but was at Belief ontaine, visiting 
Mr. Armstrong's sister, Mrs. Dawson, and other relatives. I joined the 
nation a few miles from Bellefontaine." On the 25th of June 1889, Mrs. 
Armstrong wrote me that the Wyandots left Upper Sandusky. Ohio, for the 
west on the 12th of July 1843. Mrs. A. was born July 31, 1818, and died 
Dec. 31, 1891. 

2 Mrs. Lucy B. Armstrong, in her letter to me of June 1, 1889, says: 
"Irwin P. Long is the most prominent Wyandot now living of those who- 
were grown up when the Wyandots moved to the Indian Territory in 1843. 
He is now Head Chief: was 71 years old last December. Silas Armstrong, 
always prominent, died December 14, 1865, almost 50 years old. His son 
Silas Armstrong is councillor, and is 47 . years old. Francis A. Hicks, 
Tauroome or John Hat, James Bigtree, Sr., Geo. I. Clark, Henry Jacques, 
James Washington, Rev. Squire Grayeyes, and his brother, Doctor Gray- 
eyes, Warpole, Matthew Peacock, Mathew Mudeater, Matthew and Joel 
Walker, George Armstrong, (half brother of Silas and J. M.), Robert 
Robitaille, James T. Charloe, John Summerfleld Bearskin, Sarrahas, Francis 
Driver, David and Jacob Young, John Hicks, Sr., and his sons Little 
Chief, and John Hicks. Jr., and Little Thunder, were prominent men in 
the nation when the Wyandots ceded their lands in Ohio and moved to 
the west. Lewis Lump-on-the-head, married Rebecca Peacock; .both are 
dead." She says further that in Kansas, her husband was U. S. Interpreter, 
taught school, carried on farming, and at the time of his death he was 
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come visitors at the house of my parents. Jo. and Lew. Lump- 
on-the-head, under my fatlier's control and direction, attended 
school in Marion, and they were fully as bright as their school 
fellows and better behaved. I recollect their mother, educated 
in Canada, and who was occasionally at our house, very well. 
She was a quiet, neat little woman, of dark complexion, and 
quite skillful at embroidery and other needlework. My father 
had a high opinion of some traits in the Indian character. 
He found them generally truthful and honest.^ He believed the 
Indians had often been wronged by our own people, whose un- 
just encroachments had caused cruel conflicts between the two 
races in this country. 

My father often talked with Indian acquaintances, Delawares 
and Wyandots, who saw that heroic patriot and friend of Wash- 
ington, Colonel William Crawford, inhumanly tortured and 
burnt at the stake.^ Knowing the feelings that rankled in the 

1 Mr. John S. Rappe, now an old man and a resident of Upper San- 
dusky, Ohio, formerly lived in Little Sandusky, on the border of the 
Wyandot Reservation, where he kept a tavern and general store. He was 
afterwards the owner of a large stock farm which he sold to Mr. C. R. 
P'owler, and became the president of a bank. Mr. Rappe, who probably 
did a larger business with the Wyandots than any other trader, says 
that when they left Ohio for their Reservation beyond the Missouri, they 
cwed him a large sum — five or six thousand dollars — every cent of which 
they finally paid as they got the money, principal and interest. This 
large indebtedness was owing by individual Indians, every one of whom 
was beyond the service of legal process, and "execution proof," in his far 
wild western home. Mr. Rappe says that he received from these poor 
Indians, in various ways, and without solicitation, the several sums due 
him, some of which were quite small. Now and then an Indian had a 
chance to remit by draft, but usually the specie was sent by a member 
of the tribe whose anxiety to visit the Sandusky Plains induced his return. 
In a few cases says Mr. Rappe it cost the Indian the amount of the debt 
to transmit it. Is there I ask in the whole range of history, or realm of 
fiction, an instance like this of the honesty of a people? Since the above 
was written, Mr. Rappe, the amiable, kind-hearted pioneer, passed away. 

Rappe was born in Canton, Ohio, March 5, 1814, came to Little San- 
dusky, with his wife Mary Hennessy, about 1835, and died at Upper 
Sandusky, September 21, 1889, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. His 
only child Mollie, married John McKee. sole heir of R. R. McKee. the 
banker. Of this union two children, Ralph and Lutie, are now living (1903). 

2 Col. Crawford was burnt by the Delaware Indians, near where Craw- 
ford's monument now stands, "on a low bottom on the east bank of the 
Tymochtee," about seven miles northwest of Upper Sandusky, near Craw- 
ford station, and the town of Crawfordsville, in Crawford township, in 
Wyandot, (formerly Crawford) county, Ohio. It was at that place about 
4 o'clock in the afternoon, Tuesday. June 11, 1782, the frightful torture 
and orgies commenced. See "Colonel William Crawford, by James H. 
Anderson:" published in 1898 by the Ohio State Archseological and His- 
torical Society, Vol. VI. 

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bosoms of their white neighbors touching this tragedy — the most 
shocking in the annals of civiHzed or savage warfare — the In- 
dians were commonly reticent, rarely mentioning the subject; 
but to a few intimate friends in moments of confidence they 
spoke of the dreadful scene, describing Crawford's cruel tor- 
tures, awful suiTerings, and amazing fortitude. 

My father, like his father, w^as ever hospitable, and it went 
beyond reasonable bounds. Wishing to add to the comfort and 
happiness of others, people who were almost strangers were 
daily his guests. Itinerant preachers made his house their stop- 
ping place, particular friends out of town came unbidden, put 
their horses in his stable, and made themselves at home in his 
house, and the colored fugitive from slavery sought it from 
afar as a haven of rest, on his road to Canada. None were 
turned away ; on the contrary they were ever given a cordial 
welcome. And the poor, and the needy, and the dusky wretch 
fleeing from bondage, had their necessary wants supplied. In 
this way my father spent — many would say wasted — his time 
and his money. During a church conference, a political conven- 
tion, or a public meeting of any kind, he always undertook to 
entertain all, and more than his house could conveniently hold. 
My mother responded to all his wishes in this respect, the table 
was always well, nay luxuriously supplied, and the entertained 
were even happier than their entertainers. 

I may as well here as at any other place, (as they have been 
referred to), tell how my father received the injuries that dis- 
abled him for life, broke him down I may say, and put a period 
to his active career. He was putting a new roof and cornice 
on his Main street dwelling in 1844, or the year after, and as 
he gave all his undertakings his personal supervision, he went 
up the ladder to the scaffold, which gave way as soon as he 
stepped upon it. In falling he broke one of his legs. He never 
wholly recovered from the efifects of the fall, for his eyes be- 
came weak and lost their lustre, but after the accident and for 
vears, he was still active in business and in public affairs. 
Some years later, probably during the summer of 1859, he was 
directing an improvement near the roof of his Center street res- 
idence, and while talking to his carpenter, Milton Pixley,i the 

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poorly constructed scaffold on which they were standing gave 
way, and he was thrown violently to the ground. He fell on 
his back across a scaffold pole, fracturing his other leg, and other 
bones, seriously injuring his spine, shocking his nervous system, 
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CHAPTER X 

THOUGH my father was a whig- b}- inheritance, as well as 
conviction, he was always a sincere, earnest, opponent of 
slavery. From the time he came to Marion, (1825), till 
the Emancipation Proclamation, he was an abolitionist at heart. 
As an anti-slavery man he opposed the annexation of Texas, as an 
anti-slavery whig-, he opposed the war with Mexico that followed. 
He was opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law, he fought the exten- 
sion of slavery and resisted its encroachments in every proper way ; 
and after he retired from the liench, (but not liefore), I fear, that 
some of his efforts in l)ehalf of the slave, and against the slave 
power, were neither warranted by the statutes nor the constitution 
of the country. He contributed to the auti-slavcry cause when- 
ever called upon. His house was not only a station on the Under- 
ground Railroad, making heavy outlays for escaping slaves neces- 
sarv, but his time was freely given, whenever and wherever he 
could in any wise promote the great end in view, namely, the final 
extinction of slavery. He favored the scheme of the American 
Colonization Society, of which Henry Clay was many years pres- 
ident ; he favored — to treat the slaveholder fairly — the final 
extinguishment of the blot on our escutcheon by wholesale na- 
tional purchase ; and at last, when the Slaveholders' Rebel- 
lion was inaugurated, he favored the emancipation of the slaves 
as a war measure of undoubted expediency and wisdom. And 
whether his humane longings were wise or otherwise, he lived 
to see them realized and beyond his most sanguine expectations. 
And all the time that he was bending his energies toward 
the freedom of the black man, he loved his native state I be- 
lieve, and the people thereof, beyond any other. He was proud 
of Virginia, and of her gallant people, but could not abide slavery. 
His conscience rose against it. and was the monitor he could 
not quiet. As he could neither approve nor condone this national 
sin, nor maintain an attitude of passive neutrality, he must make 
war upon it, for in no other way could he appease the restless 
spirit within, that would not "down" at his bidding. And when 
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the results of our hloody, fratricidal war, his satisfaction was 
supreme. He was a happy man. His joy was real: it was 
seen in his face, felt in his accents : he could not hide his 
emotion. But he did not expect or wish social equality — far 
from it. Nor did he demand that our freedmen be granted at 
once and without preparation, all the rights that white citizens 
exercise and enjoy. With these, in the fullness of time, they 
would probably be clothed. Their freedom — the grand aim of 
his life — was secure : he was content. 

As has been said, my father took pleasure in the society of 
bright, agreeable people, but his leisure hours were mainly spent 
in reading newspapers and magazines, and a few old books, which 
included the Book of Books. With the great questions of the 
day he was familiar, for he read wath care the writings and 
speeches of our pu])Iic men. He kept track of many of the laws 
passed by our State Legislature, and by Congress, and of many 
of the decisions of our higher courts. The bible was ever his 
guide, counselor, and friend, and he declared that he derived 
more consolation and instruction from its perusal than from all 
other sources. He read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, the works 
•of John and Charles Wesley, and Benjamin Franklin. He read 
occasionally Shakespeare, and Milton, particularly Paradise Lost. 

He was charmed by the simple beauty of Oliver Goldsmith's 
prose and poetry, but could never quite forgive this favorite 
author for the second verse of Tony Lumpkin's song, in the 
•comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer": 

"When JMethodist preachers come down, 

A-preaching that drinking is sinful, 
I'll wager the rascals a crown. 

They always preach best with a skinful. 
But when you come down with your pence, 

For a slice of their scurvy religion, 
I'll leave it to all men of sense, 

But you, my good friend, are the pigeon." 

He had the courage to read The Desti*uction of Jerusalem, and 
other alleged histories ; but the profane works that he really 
relished were few in number. The list included The Vicar of 
Wakefield, The Course of Time, The Last of the Mohicans and 
Uncle Tom's Cabin. 

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In writing he was often careless in spelling, -punctuating, and 
the use of capital letters, but his style was simple, direct and 
strong. He rarely left out words, and his papers looked well, 
l:)ecause clean, and free from blots, erasures, and interlineations. 
Letters in my possession, many of which cover four pages of 
cap, or largest note, are thus written. Jotted down quickly, 
they were seldom read a second time. To prove that he was not 
always careless, and could be painstaking, I have letters, some 
of which are quite lengthy, in which no errors of any kind occur. 



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CHAPTER XI 

DURING the August term — 1839 — of the Couit of Com- 
mon Pleas, a triaf,^ involving" the liberty of an alleged 
slave, which caused not only tremendous excitement but 
a riot of no small proportions, took place in Marion. It was the 
most exciting, the most far-reaching, the most celebrated, and ulti- 
mately the most beneficial to mankind of any event that ever took 
place in Marion county ; and although treated and reviewed at the 
time by manv of the leading journalists of the country, and since 
referred to in historical works, it has never been fully, accurately, 
nor impartially described. For a year or more prior to the 
month of August, 1839, a "likely," well-built colored man, of 
popular traits, known as Black Bill, alias Mitchell, alias Ander- 
son, had made the village of Marion his home. He was a laborer, 
a butcher, a barber, and a fiddler ; was very industrious, lively, 
and good-natured, and withal so competent that his employers 
and the people liked him. About the holidays he was in demand 
at private houses as a butcher, and to cut and cure the meat, 
and as a maker of "good old Virginny sage sausage." During the 
winter at dances his services were indispensable, for he could 
''call" as well as fiddle. Besides he sang with a melodious voice 
plantation songs, and was an expert on the banjo. He was so 
handy indeed, and useful in many ways and amusing that he 
was a "favorite darkey." 

It was claimed that the home of the negro was Kanawha, 
Va., (now Charleston, W. Va.), whence he had escaped from 
his master, John Lewis, about two years before. On or about 
the eighteenth of July, 1839, a posse of citizens from Kanawha 
Court House, Kanawha County, Va., appeared in Marion, and 
identified Black Bill,- or claimed to have identified him, as a 
runaway slave, the property at that time of Mr. Adnali Van Bib- 
ber, of Kanawha. He was at once arrested as "a fugitive from 

^ The trial was under an Ohio statute tliat provided for the arrest and 
recovery of persons held to service or labor. 

2 It appeared from a bill of sale, and from oral evidence that Black 
13111 was born in Virginia, in 1806, that he was five feet nine inches higli, 
imd that his complexion was black. 

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service or labor," on a warrant issued by John Bartram, a justice 
of the peace, and brought before Ozias Bowen, president judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas, and by him sent to the county 
jail to await trial at the regular term of the court. On account 
of Bill's genial disposition, and popularity, his arrest and im- 
prisonment caused a sensation. It was generally believed, es- 
pecially by the Quakers in the neighborhood, that he was a free 
negro, for he called himself "a free nigger," said he had never 
been Van Bibber's slave, and the feeling in his behalf ran high. 
No such a state of excitement was ever before known to exist 
in the county. 

Tlie people were not aliolitionists — there were but few in 
that day — but they liked Black Bill and thought him unjustly 
accused and treated ; so he had the sympathy of a majority of 
the people. The case came on for trial on the 26th day af 
August, 1839. Adnah Van Bibber, the claimant, (cousin of John 
Lewis), Robert W. McClanahan his agent, William F. Goshorn, 
Mr. Smith, Mr. Kline, Mr. Bowers, Robert Anderson, and Mr. 
Lawrence, came to Marion to recover the negro, and attended the 
August' term of the Court of Common Pleas for that purpose. 

The judges on the bench were Ozias Bowen, president judge; 
Thomas J. Anderson and George Gray, associate judges.^ The 
court sat in the old courthouse, which stood on the site of the 
present elegant temple of justice. The court-room was large — 
larger than any room in the new courthouse — and crowded 
to suffocation. The portico, vestibule, ante-rooms, staircases, 
halls, galleries, and jury rooms, were filled with excited, reso- 
lute, determined people. Those who sought to recover the al- 
leged runaway, called slave-hunters, with sympathizing friends, 
fully armed and equipped for any desperate deed, were present 
in force, and they flourished and brandished bowie-knives and 
pistols in a threatening manner, to intimidate and overawe the 
prisoner and his friends, and defeat the ends of justice. 

The Virginians, who were represented in court by two at- 
torneys. General George Rowe of Marion, and Charles Sweetser 
of Delaware, like Sweetser were bold, daring and unscrupulous, 
and tried to compass their ends by force and violence. They 

1 The third associate judge did not sit in the case, nor was he on the 
bench during the August term. 

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were cordially seconded in all their schemes and machinations 
hy others equally desperate and reckless. Black Bill, alias 
Mitchell, was defended hy Cooper K. Watson — then prosecuting 
attorney of the county, and h}' James H. Godman. Amidst great 
excitement the trial proceeded. The witnesses were all or nearly 
all against Black Bill, who was not allowed to testify. The at- 
torneys for the claimant were indefatigable ; those for the de- 
fense exhibited unusual ability for young lawyers. They were 
all good speakers and eloquence was a more potent factor then 
than now ; but Watson and Godman shone triumphant. The trial, 
neither lengthy nor tedious, was witnessed at some of its stages 
by almost every man in Marion, and by many others. The ques- 
tion for the court to determine was one of the utmost moment 
to the man of color. It was whether he was to remain a slave 
forever or to be given his freedom; to be carried down South, — 

"Into tlie jaws of Death, 
Into the month of Hell," 

or thenceforth to walk mother-earth erect and free. 

The title of the case was "Adnah Van Bibber, vs. Mitchell (a 
colored man)". It was on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh day of 
August, at lo o'clock A. M. that court convened to decide and 
dispose of the case. Shorth' thereafter Judge Ozias Bowen began 
to read the opinion of the court. While reading the opinion, 
which consumed about forty minutes, all were quiet. The still- 
ness was almost painful, for it was unusual, and seemed to be- 
token or foreshadow a tempest of some sort. The volcanic ex- 
citement that spoke in every eye told its own intense tale, which 
boded no good to the slave hunters present should they provoke 
its fury by adding fuel to the flame. There, near the center of 
the court room, in the prisoner's box, sat poor Black Bill. Be- 
hind him, "to right of" him, "to left of" him, "in front of" him. 
were his mortal enemies. Van Bibber, Goshorn, McClanahan, 
Bowers, Smith, Kline. Robert Anderson, Lawrence, Sweetser, 
Rowe, and others. The sight of these man-stealcrs, as they were 
called, almost maddened Mitchell's friends, who looked longingly 
to the court for justice, for justice tempered Vvdth mercy. It came 
at last. The decision was in Bill's favor. "The defendant is dis- 
charged from custody." were the judge's last words. The court 

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held that Van Bihher, the plaintiff, had failed to prove that he was 
the (Avner of the defendant, or that he had ever exercised any 
of the rights of ownership ; that the evidence showed that 
Mitchell, the defendant, at the time of his escape was the property 
of one John Lewis, of Kanawha, \a., in whose possession he 
had before that remained. 

Black Bill was now free. No, no; not yet, for the I'ndge 
had liardly finished reading the decision when McClanahan, of 
Kanawha, in open conrt seized Bill by the throat, his fellow 
conspirators came to his aid, the bystanders pounced upon them 
all endeavoring to rescue Bill, a terrible struggle in the court 
room followed, in which McClanahan, badly bruised, was felled 
to the brick Hoor. Whereupon Sweetser, the claimant's attorney 
arose, (every one was now on his feet), and shouted: "May 
it please the court : my client now intends to arrest the negro 
as the property of John Lewis, of Kanawha, Va., take him be- 
fore John Bartram, of this place, a justice of the peace, and 
there under a well-known act of Congress, seek a full, fair, and 
impartial investigation and adjudication of the case." 

.\ow the tumult was something frightful. The eight slave- 
hunters whipped out their dueling pistols and flashing blades, 
and flourishing them about, openly defied the court officials and 
the entire assemblage. The presiding judge cried aloud and 
rapped for order, and conunanded the sheriff and his deputies 
to arrest the rioters at once and bring them before the court. 
No arrests were then made for the whole turl)ulent and. disorderly 
mass surrounrling the negro was then moving toward the en- 
trance. 

P>ill was dragged and kicked from the court room into the 
entry, down stairs, into the vestibule and courtyard, and into 
the street. McClanahan had in the meantime risen from the brick 
floor, his garments discolored and torn, broken away from the 
deputv sheriff, and rejoined his seven lawless companions, wdio 
were now on Main street in flagrant possession of Black Bill. 
Here the people rained stones upon the rioters — Main street had 
just been macadamized and covered with broken lime stone — 
till they feared they might injure their helpless captive, while 
pursuing his captors to their place of destination, a small one- 
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Stokes tavern, known as the office of John Bartrani, jnstice of the 
peace. Here the slave-hunters with Black Bill, who by previous 
connivance^ were soon joined b}^ the justice, halted, and took 
possession of the office. It was soon surrounded by nearly all 
the people of Marion, and by many from the country, who, baffled 
and justly indignant, demanded admittance and the release of the 
colored man. But, liold and defiant, these men from Kanawha, 
with cocked pistols, bowie-knives and daggers, kept the people 
at ba\- till a cry f(ir the public arms was heard. The arsenal 
was soon forced, the arms seized, and the enraged multitude 
appeared before the office of the justice, muskets in hand, with 
fixed Itavoncts, and again demanded in stentorian tones, admis- 
sion and the surrender of the -colored man. 

The sherifif,- ordered by the court to arrest the rioters, now 
appeared on the scene, requested to l)e heard, and begged the 
crowd to disperse. No attention was paid to him, nor were any 
arrests made. A friend of Justice P)artram says, that he (the 
justice) came out of his office and tried to calm the surging 
multitude by an assurance that IHack Bill should he given all 
his legal rights, and if a free man should not be again enslaved. 

Was ever a more disgraceful, not to say infamous scene en- 
acted in Ohio ? The violent seizure in the very presence of the 
court, by unauthorized strangers, of a prisoner who had just lieen 
acquitted and discharged ! Though a daring, high-handed out- 
rage upon justice and judicial authority, still as will lie seen, it 
found plentv of defenders. 

ddiis open defiance of the decision and subsequent orders of 
the court made my father's blood boil. But there were officers 
to execute the orders of the court, and his place was on the 
bench : otherwise, like an avenging Nemesis, these bold, lawless 
adventurers, whose deadly weapons were thus publicly displayed, 
would have felt his presence and strong arm right in their midst. 
And wdien a recess, at the suggestion of Hon. Gustavus Swan,^ 



1 See letters of Bat'tram's two friend.?. William Walker, of Upper San- 
dusky, and Robert W. McClanahan, of Kanawha. 

- Joseph Durfee. 

^Gustavus Swan, lioi'n in New Hampsliire. .July l.'i. 17S7. came to 
Columbus before the war of ISli;, and became promini'iit as a lawyer and 
financier. In IS'Jti. he was a]ipointed Common Pleas Jndg'e. and soon there- 
after Supreme Judge. He died February 7. ISGO, leaying- a large estate to 
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of Columbus, was taken a little later, after the rioters had suc- 
cessfully withstood the officers of the court, and carried oft" the 
negro to John IJartram's office, Judge Thomas J. Anderson made 
up his mind that the action of the court in discharging the negro 
from custody, was not a meaningless, idle ceremony, but a solemn 
fact that should be respected. And leaving the bench, he went 
at once to the office of the justice of the peace, and regardless 
of the pistols pointed at him, and the bowie-knives brandished 
about, and the vollies of oaths that smote his ear, he cried in 
a firm voice, "Stand aside men," and moving neither to the right 
nor to the left he pressed his way in, (others following in his 
wake), ordered the men guarding Black Bill to let him go. burst 
the back door of the office open, and the negro darted out. 

It was not judicial authority or prestige that enabled him 
to do this, but his high character, and reputation for integrity 
and courage. Those who met him at the door knew he intended 
to go in, and they instinctively gave way. His soul was above- 
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CHAPTER XII 

NOW that the negro was again free, and making a bee-line- 
for Canada, the rage and desperation of his late cus- 
todians knew no bounds ; but not having time to wreak 
vengeance they all started in pursuit. The first to leave the office 
at this crisis was McClanahan, who seeing his quarn- in the dis- 
tance, and being athletic and fleet of foot, gave chase, and fast 
gained upon the poor frightened wretch. X^ow and then the 
colored man would look l)ack, and McClanahan seeing this and 
knowing his timidity, would shout to the fugitive when near 
enough to be heard, "Stop, Bill, or I'll shoot you." The Quakers 
ui the race, and there were several, would then halloo loudly to 
the fleeing negro, ''Run, Mitchell,^ McClanahan's after you !" 

A tall, slim, muscular young Quaker, who was much inter- 
ested during the trial, but whose name I have forgotten, was in 
the race, and kept alongside one of the foremost Virginians. Once 
when the latter was getting too close to the negro, the Quaker 
said in a ])layful way. "Let us wrestle," and putting his foot be- 
fore him, down he came on his face. This so enraged the Vir- 
ginian, that he drew or attempted to draw his pistol. The 
Quaker was not put out by this, for quick as a flash, he clinched 
and tussled with his foe till he laid him on his back, where he 
was soon arrested bv a deputy sherifif for contempt of court. 
Meantime the race was kept up by others, and when ]\IcClana- 
han came up to Mitchell, and was in the act of laying violent 
hands on him, he was quietly knocked down by a peace and order- 
loving Quaker, and a friend of McClanahan who sprang to his 
relief shared the same fate. Now the sherifif's posse hove in 
sight, and stood for this group ; the rioters were put under ar- 
rest for contempt, taken before the court which was then in ses- 
sion, and required to enter into recognizances for their appear- 
ance from day to day. Only one I believe was sent to jail, Mr. 
Adnah Van Bibber, the claimant, where he was detained only a 
few hours. 

1 After this escapade, as a little boy I often heard this cry. while- 
playing and running races near "the old Brick School House." 

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By these ineidents, Alitehell, who was not courageous, was 
greatly favored, and made steady gains, (traveHng a northeast- 
erly course. ) and was soon far in advance, and free from ob- 
servation in a friendly field of corn, which grew thick and high 
on land of John Dumble, adjoining his brick-yard. Nor did 
Mitchell let the grass grow under his feet till he had crossed the 
border ; whence he notified his Quaker friends, that he was safe 
from pursuit in the northern asylum of the southern slave.^ 

Let an eye-witness now speak of the action of the court, and 
the riotous tumult that ensued. The following editorial is taken 
from the Marion \'isitor, a newspaper published in Marion in 
'^'^3i[)- 1\v (jcorge and Alexander Sjjrung. It portrays with crude 
1)ut truthful hand the thrilling scene. 

"A RIOT. 

Tuesday evening last (August '27th), presented a scene of confusion 
and excitement never before witnessed in our peaceful village. It ap- 
pears as our readers will discover below that a negro well known to 
our citizens by the name of Bill, was some time since taken up as a 
runaway slave from Virginia, and lodged in the jail of this county 
for trial. On Monday, the day set for his trial, vvc discovered an un- 
usual number of persons assembled to hear the result. The house 
was crowded to overflowing. The witnesses were examined whose 

1 After Black Bill ^ got away, and while making his final race for free- 
dom, certain Quakers of the county and other sympathizers kept near 
him, thwarting' his pursuers and aiding his escape. Among these were, 
Eben Daniel, Griffith Levering, and Cyrus. William. Martin. Reuben and 
Aaron L. Benedict. 

Black Bill spent the first night in a swamp near Marion, whence he 
made his way to the house of Reuben Benedict, a Quaker, (who resided 
on a farm in the eastern part of Marion, now Morrow county,) where he 
was secreted in Reuben's garret. His next stopping place was a Quaker 
settlement two miles north of Fredericktown: his next another Quaker 
settlement at Greenwich, Huron county; his next, the town of Oberlin, 
from which place he was escorted to Canada. 

One of the earnest, active, enterprising abolitionists in Marion county 
in 1839 — Allan McNeal of Tully township — (whose very capable son and 
grandsons are now, 100:'>, practicing law in Marion), warmly espoused the 
cause of Black Bill, was present during his trial, and no doubt aided in 
his escape. Allan McNeal, a strong, reliable man, and a man of convic- 
tions, was my father's friend, upon whom he often said he could always 
depend. He was born in Washington county, Pa., June IT, 1809, of good 
Scotch-Ii-ish stock, came with his parents to Tully township, Marion county, 
in 1827, and settled on a farm which he owned at the time of his death, 
July 1, ISS:?. His son John F. McNeal. was born April 2S, 1840. The two 
sons of John F., namely, Hon. Louis B. and Alfred F. are law partners of their 
father, and have families of their own. 

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testimony will be found below, and counsel heard. The judge how- 
ever reserved his decision [written opinion] till the following morning. 
A great mass of people was assembled. At ten o'clock A. M., the court 
was called, (the house was literally crowded), to hear the decision of the 
judge which occupied at least forty minutes in delivering, during which 
the greatest order prevailed, but as soon as the Hon. O. Bowen, had 
finished, by declaring the prisoner free, all was confusion, riot and dis- 
order. As soon as the decision was ended the pretended owners seized 
,the prisoner, the bystanders resisted, and endeavored to rescue him 
declaring him to be free, and desiring them to let him run at large. But 
the Virginians still maintained their possession by force, and presented 
pistols, bowie-knives, dirks, etc., threatening the lives of all those who 
would lay hands on them, or the negro, — and all this in open court. 
Our citizens, and friends from the country, stood out in defence of their 
trampled and insulted laws, which were thus set at defiance. 

In this scene of confusion, the negro was taken down stairs, and 
dragged by his captors through the streets. Those who forced him 
onward, were armed with pistols, bowie-knives and daggers. At this 
unusual and horrible sight, the populace became enraged, and attacked 
them with stones, and whatever missiles they could get hold of. They 
[the Virginians], at length succeeded in getting him into one of our 
justice's offices, [the office of John Bartram, J. P.], and there guarded 
him as is stated, for a new trial. Before the door of the office, the 
excited multitude assembled, demanding justice and the negro, but all of 
no avail. The entrance was guarded with pistols and bowie-knives. 
At this time the sheriff arrived and begged to be heard, and requested 
the mob to disperse, but this also was of no effect. At length a cry 
for the public arms was heard, the arsenal was broken open, and the 
arms obtained, which presented a horrible spectacle. The excited populace 
under arms still demanded entrance, which was refused. All the orders 
of the sheriff' and the court to restore order seemed to be of no effect. 
Pistols and bowie-knives were all the law. 

At length one of the associate judges — Judge Anderson — left the 
bench, and in defiance of cocked pistols, and flashing steel, forced his 
way into the office, after which others followed, and burst open the 
back door, by which means the negro made his escape. He had run 
but a short distance when he was overtaken by one of his pursuers, 
who presented a pistol and threatened to shoot him if he did not stop. 
At this time a number of the enraged multitude fell upon the pursuer 
and knocked him down; another who came to his assistance shared the 
same fate. This confusion continued till orders were given to arrest 
the rioters. During the arrest of the rioters the negro made his escape 
and has not since been lieard of. 

In order to give our readers an idea of the spirit that prevailed 
we quote one of the threats thrown out by one of the rioters : 'By the 
living God in heaven, I'll shoot that fellow.' We would further remark 
that the rioters (we believe eight in number), were the same day ar- 

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-rested and recognized to appear from day to day under bonds of $600 
• each. Were we to go into detail of all the particulars at this time it 
would occupy at least two or three columns of this week's paper. We 
have therefore concluded to await the further result of the court, and 
present the whole in its proper light. In conclusion we are happy to state 
that no lives were lost though several persons were wounded. 

We hope the gentlemen from the South, will return to their native 

State, fully satisfied that we have a court of justice in the town of 

Marion, Ohio, and a people who are able and willing to sustain it! ! 

^ and that a band of armed assailants are not able to trample upon our laws 

with impunity. 

We cannot pass over without reminding our readers, and the public, 
lliat the above transaction was not an abolition, or anti-abolition fracas. 
A large portion of our citizens who were engaged in it, are not only 
not abolitionists, Imt strongly opposed to abolition principles. It was 
not the freedom of the negro that was contended for; it was the law of 
our country, that we saw resisted, and defiance bid to with deadly 
weapons, and an apparent reckless diregard of human life. May those 
-guilty of the outrage receive simimary pimishment ; we think the lesson 
would be salutary." 

The Alarioii \^isitor's article fails to disclose the grotiiids on 
which the colored prisoner was discharged from custody ; but I 
have already stated that his discharge was based on the ground 
that the claimant, Adnah Van Bibber, failed to prove ownership. 
The testimony according to the opinion of the court now be- 
fore me, established the fact that the accused was the property 
■ of one John Lewis, of Kanawha cottnty, Va., and not of his 
cousin, the claimant. 

McClanahan, Kline, Van Bibber, Goshorn, Bowers, Lawrence, 
Smith, and Anderson of Kanawha, were arrested for contempt, 
and Van Bibber, as before stated, was taken to jail. They were 
afterwards held to appear from day to day in the sum of $600 
each, and were detained seven days. John Bartram, the justice 
of the peace, and Rowe and Charles Sweetser, the attorneys, were 
also arrested. The grand jury being in session, bills of indict- 
luent were found against the Virginians: McClanahan, Van Bib- 
ber, Kline, .Smith, and Goshorn, and against Charles Sweetser. 
They were indicted for assault and battery, and for resisting the 
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Black Bill never came back to Marion/ but his heroic friends 
heard from him in Canada, (as already stated), whither his hur- 
ried footsteps had quickly taken him via "the Underground 
Route." 

1 "Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 30, 1892. 
L. F. UalcMcy. Eaq 

Dear Sir: — You will recall conversations I have had with you about 
the celebrated case in Marion in August, 1839, against Black Bill, an alleged 
runaway slave. Will you kindly inform me whether Black Bill, alias Mit- 
chell, ever came back to Marion. I think he never came back. 

Yours truly, 

J. H. Anderson." 

"Marion, O., Oct. 1, 1892. 
Dear Sir: — I have a very distinct recollection of that great event, of 
which I may quote from ancient history, magna pars fui. No. William 
never came Ijack to Marion, at least not in the flesh. « * sr. jjg would 
at any and all times have been liable to arrest as a fugitive, and Ms big 
scare at the time would have kept more courageous persons away. * * * 
I have copies of each of the 'handbills' issued by the respective parties then 
-dividing the community, headed 'Anti-Abolition Meeting.' and 'Freedom of 
Speech.' dated early in 1S40, which I prize highly. 

Respectfiillx'. 

L. F. Raichlet." 



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CHAPTER XIII 

THE slave case was not simply the talk of the town, but of 
the whole country. The Ohio Statesman, and the Ohio 
State Bulletin, of Columbus, published many columns on 
the subject, and the press generally, North and South took it up. 
The Ohio State Journal, a Whig paper, was too much afraid of 
being- called an abolition sheet, to mention it editorially. Robert 
W. McClanahan, one of the Virginians who came to Marion for 
the negro, wrote an elaborate defense of his conduct for the Rich- 
mond Whig. In this letter, written at Kanawha, October 26, 
1839, he criticises the decision of the court, intimates that Judge 
Bowen was weak as well as corrupt, reflects on the course of 
Judge Anderson, and strives to make it appear that he was al- 
ways in the right and as brave as a lion. 

The following ajipeared in the Ohio Statesman, Tuesday, 
Xovemb^r 12, 1839. Sam. Medary, then the editor, was no. 
doubt, the author: 

"THE ABOLITION RIOT AT MARION. 

We invite tlie attention of the reader to an article in our paper 
from the Riclnnond (Virginia) Whig-, on the subject of the late riot 
at Maiion in this state, which has been the subject of much conversation 
and still greater misrepresentation. Such scenes are very disgraceful 
to our state, and since abolitionism has become merely political, and 
used to subserve the views of office seekers who find whiggery unaided, 
too weak to bear thcni above public feeling, it is time that the stigma of 
such riots should attach where it belongs. 

From what we were told by a gentleman of the first respectability, 
soon after the article in the Marion Visitor appeared, we were satisfied 
that the article was a false representation of facts, put out for political 
effect, on the eve of our elections, by the Whig abolition judges, and 
their friends. The Richmond Whig should have informed its readers 
that the principal rioters were of its own party. We give Mr. Clanahan's 
statement, believing him entitled to a hearing after what has been pub- 
lished already on the svibject. Fanaticism is bad enough in church, but 
when in state, it is the speedy forerunner of 'fire and faggot,' injustice, 
anarchy, and the downfall of all governments based on reason and writ- 
ten laws." 

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FROM THE RICHMOND WHIG. 
"Tlie statement of Mr. McClanahan, touching the Abolition Riot 
in Marion, Ohio, of which so many false rumors have been circulated 
through the press, may be relied on as strictly correct. He is a gentle- 
man of respectability and truth, and was an eye witness and participant 
of the whole affair." 

"the AnOLITION RIOT AT MARION. 

Audi alteram partem. 
Messrs. Editors : — A libellous and abusive paragraph copied from 
the Marion, (Ohio) Visitor, has been taking the rounds of the news- 
papers of the United States, which imperatively demands from me some 
notice. Had the article referred to appeared only in the Marion Visitor, 
it would not have been deemed worthy of attention, but the circulation 
which its calumnious statements have received in so many quarters where 
the real facts of the case are imknown, accompanied too, in many instances 
with very objectionable remarks by the editors republishing the original 
article, renders it necessary that the whole affair should be exposed, and 
the public, whose indignation has been so loudly challenged, placed in 
possession of the facts upon which to found its opinion. 

The editor of the National Gazette goes so far as to call for the 
names of the Virginians engaged in what he is pleased to call the 'mob' 
at Marion, in order that the general indignation which he invokes may 
be properly placed and directed. One object of this communication is 
to furnish the editor and the readers of that pitper with the names of 
the persons thus injuriously aspersed, as well as with the whole extent 
of their offending. 

Some time during the summer of this year, Mr. John Lewis of this, 
county, understood that a negro man who had eloped from him in 1837 
was living in Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. William F. Goshorn had seen and 
recognized the negro, and as the engagements of Mr. Lewis would not 
permit him to go himself to Ohio for the purpose of reclaiming him, he 
executed a bill of sale to Adnah Van Bibber, for the negro, in order 
that he might go and claim the negro as his own property. This bill of 
sale, though of course void and of no effect as to the creditors of Mr. 
Lewis, if he had any, was yet a good and unimpeachable instrument to 
pass the property as between Lewis and Van Bibber. Mr. Van Bibber 
found the negro at Marion, Ohio, and arrested him. He denied Mr, 
Van Bibber's ownership, and was committed for further trial. 

As the friend and agent of Mr. Lewis, I accompanied Mr. Van Bibber 
to Marion to attend this trial, and we took with us as witnesses to identify 
the property, etc., Messrs Robert Anderson, an aged and highly respect- 
able citizen of this county, formerly of Cumberland, Virginia, and W. F. 
Goshorn, making four^ in all. 



1 The name.«! of the other four who made up the kidnapping party 
namely: Smith, Bowers. Kline and Lawrence, Mr. McClanahan fails to 
mention. 

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During the progress of the trial of tlie cause before Judge Bowen, 
the partial and improper course pursued throughout by the judge, con- 
vinced me that he intended to li])eratc the slave upon some pretext or 
other, and I accordingly advised with one of the principal lawyers of the 
place to ascertain what course it would be best to pursue. By him I was 
advised that in case the decision was as we confidently expected it to be, 
to claim the negro as the property of John Lewis, and to proceed against 
him under a law of the United States. 

In relation to the opinion suljsequently delivered b}' the judge, and 
which was published at length in the Marion Visitor, I have only to re- 
m.'irlc that it exhibits just sufficient intelligence to prove that he erred, 
nut through mere ignorance, but wilfully and * * * 

.V short extract from the judge's published opinion will show the 
ground upon which he was pleased to discharge the negro. "All the proof 
which \'an Bibber has given of any right to the defendant's services, 
is this naked bill of sale. He has not shown that he ever exercised any 
act of ownership o\er defendant. No witness has spoken anything 
about any purchase ever having been made by him. On the contrary it has 
been jjroved that Lewis was the owner of defendant, and had l)een in 
possession of him up to the time of his escape in 1837, claiming him in 
his own right, and no one setting up a counterclaim, and that he has 
never jiarted with him. Can any rational mind hesitate in the opinion 
that Lewis is still the owner of Mitchell? I think the claimant has 
shown it most clearly." So for the opinion : and because this claimant 
only exhibited a bill of sale from this 'proved owner' of the slave 
to himself, the judgment of the court was that the defendant be dis- 
charged from custody. 

.\s tlie law of Ohio permitted no apjieal from this decision, I had 
determined to follow the advice of my counsel, and as the agent of Mr. 
Lewis claim the slave before a justice of the peace, under the law of 
Congress passed February li'th, 1793, (see note), as the property of 
John. Lewis. I had directed my counsel to inform the court of this 
determination immediately after the judgment should be announced 

Note. Extract from the law of Congress, passed February 12th, 1793. 
"That when any person held to labor in any of the United States, or 
jiny of the territories, etc. — under the laws thereof, shall escape into any 
other of the said states or territories, the person to whom such labor or 
service may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize 
or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any 
.iudge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing or 
being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or 
town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made, and upon 
jivoof to the satisfaction of such judge or magistrate, or either, etc., that 
the person so seized or arrested, doth under the laws of the state, etc., 
from which he or she fled, owe service or labor to the person claiming 
him or her, it shall be the duty of such .iudge or magistrate, to give a 
ceitificate thereof, to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be 
sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labor to the state 
or territory from which he fled." 

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I had also before the meeting of the Court by my attorney, Gen. Rowe, 
informed Judge Anderson, one of the Associate Judges, of my intention, 
and he promised to exert himself to prevent any disturbance or inter- 
position from the crowd. 

In pursuance of this arrangement, as soon as the decision of the 
Court was pronounced, my attorney rose and stated to the Court that I 
was now about to proceed against the negro as the property of John 
Lewis, and that for that purpose, I intended to take him to the office 
of a justice of the peace for trial. After the attorney had made this state- 
ment, I caught hold of the negro without noise or disturbance. Im- 
mediately there was a rush from every part of the court house, which 
was crowded, to the negro. Several persons unknown to me seized the 
negro, and told him to leap over the liack of the box and make his escape. 
At the same instant I was seized liy two persons, who have since said 
that they were officers of the Court, and ordered by the Court to arrest 
me for a contempt. In spite of their etTorts I retained my hold of the 
negro until I received two severe blows from a third person, the last of 
which brought me to the floor. When I arose I found that the negro had 
left the court house. I released myself from the persons who had hold 
■of me, and who had torn luy clothes very much, forced my way through 
the crowd into the street, and saw the negro in the custody of my 
friends, .'^ome fifty or sixty yards distant in the direction of Mr. Bar- 
tram's office, the justice of the peace before whom we intended to take 
him: the crowd, about 150 to 200 persons, all the while hurling at 
them stones, sticks, etc. I soon got hold of the negro, and with the 
assistance of my friends (seven in number), succeeded in getting him 
into the justice's office. It was not imtil we were in the street 
and surrounded by an infuriated mob that any of our party drew their 
weapons, and only four of us were armed in any maimer. 

Let me pause and inquire who thus far were the rioler,^, who com- 
posed the mob, who were endeavoring to obstruct and defeat the course 
of justice, and who 'trampled upon and insulted' and 'set at defiance" 
the laws of the land? Clearly not the agents of John Lewis, who were 
proceeding by due course of law and in a quiet and orderly manner to 
vindicate his property in the negro. The slave had been discharged 
from custody by the Court of Common Pleas of Marion County. So far 
as regarded the officers of that Court, and the proceedings under which 
he had been confined, the negro was at liberty. The correctness of the 
decision and the power of the court to discharge him, were neither de- 
nied or impugned. But the negro l)eing then discharged and at liberty, 
the agent of Lewis carrying out the views of the Court as just de- 
livered preferred a new claim against the negro, and proceeded to enforce 
it by taking him before a justice of the peace to whom it belongs to 
investigate the subject. 

And to prevent misunderstanding or difficulty, this agent had been 
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and legal intention. Notwithstanding all this, the agent of Lewis, in the 
very act of appealing to the laws of the land is set upon, together with 
his few but gallant companions by a vile mob, headed and encouraged 
in tlieir violent and unlawful purpose by the presiding judge of the 
court. But the four Virginians and their four friends were enabled 
for some time successfully to vindicate the majesty of the law so grossly 
violated in their persons, against the infuriated multiude who trampled 
upon and insulted them. And it was not until artifice was resorted to- 
that these violators of the law were enabled to effect their designs. 

After we succeeded as before stated in lodging the negro within 
the office of the justice of the peace, the mob demanded admittance which 
we of course refused, and prevented them from entering by threatening 
to punish those who should attempt to force an entrance. The justice 
of the peace who was in the office appeared at the door, and used every 
means of persuasion to restore quiet and order, pledging his word and 
honor that the negro should not be carried off except by due course of 
law; but all without effect. 

While this was going on at the office, a Mr. Spelman, a student of 
law, and leader of the abolitionists, forced the door of the arsenal and 
seized upon the public arms. About twenty persons presented themselves 
before the door of the office with fixed bayonets and demanded entrance. 
But this bustling argument was as unsuccessful as the volleys of missiles 
with which we had been assailed. 

A])out this time. Judge Anderson, heretofore mentioned, made 
his appearance and demanded admission ; but received from Mr. Kline 
the same answer which he had given to all previous applications, viz ; 
that "he would shoot any person who should attempt to enter the door.' 
I, supposing that Judge Anderson had come in pusuance of his promise 
to General Rowe that morning, for the purpose of maintaining the law 
and restoring quiet, and believing that his presence in the office would 
tend to compose and satisfy the mob, requested Mr. Kline to admit him. 
But on account of the noise that gentleman did not hear mc. I then 
caught hold of Kline, and pulled him from the door, while Mr. Robert 
Anderson of this county, taking hold of Judge Anderson's hand drew him 
in. The crowd attempted to follow, which drew^ the attention of Mr. 
Kline and myself from Judge Anderson and the negro; and while we 
were engaged in beating the mob back. Judge Anderson, as I have since 
been informed, directed the man in charge of the negro to let him go; 
then assisted in opening the back door, and turned the negro into the 
street. 

Wlien I found the negro was gone I no longer resisted the entrance 
of the mob, but immediately started in pursuit, and had come so near to 
the negro as to raise my hand to take hold of him, when I received a 
blow on the temple from a brickbat which brought me to the ground. 
When I arose, the foremost of the mob had reached me. Him I seized 
and knocked down with my pistol, but in falling he pulled me after 
him. A second one then jumped on me, when my good friend Mr. 



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Kline came to my rescue, leveled one of them, and was in turn knocked 
•down himself. We were both raised from the ground by the sherifif 
who marched us to the court house. Mr. Van Bibber and Mr. Goshorn 
had been arrested previously, and Mr. V. was taken to jail. A short time 
afterwards the sherifif arrested Mr. Anderson of Kanawha, Mr. Bartram 
the justice, and Mr. Sweetzer my attorney. We were then bound in 
recognizances of $600 each, to appear from day to day, and detained 
seven days. The grand jury, then in session, found bills of indictment 
against Messrs Kline, Van Bibber, Goshorn, Sweetser and myself, 
which are still pending. The negro of course has not since been heard 
of by his owner or any of us. 

The National Gazette very truly remarks 'that such outrages as that 
above described, by which the statutes concerning persons claimed as 
fugitives from labor are set at naught and despised by northern mobs, 
disgrace the whole nation, and cannot find honest defenders in any part 
of it.' And as the same paper also very properly remarks, 'it would be 
well to have these laws repealed at once, and thus save trouble and 
breaches of the peace, if they must continue to be administered as 
they have of late been by elective seven year judges assisted by abolition 
mobs. Under such an administration they are a mockery and an insult 
to the whole southern people.' All those papers, particularly the National 
Gazette, the Evening Star, (Maj. Noah's), and Atkinson's Evening Post, 
which have published the calumnious article of the Marion Visitor, will 
see the justice and propriety of publishing this reply. 

Robert W. McClanahan." 

Kanawha, October 26, 1839." 

Mr. McClaiiahaii's letter lacks several elements of truth. Be- 
sides it seems to have l)een written mainly to show his daring 
and mighty deeds in time of danger. It is true that Mr. Kline, 
and other occupants of Bartram's ot^ce, threatened to shoot Judge 
Anderson, if he dared to enter, but he went straight ahead turn- 
ing neither to the right or left. None of these men offered him 
a helping hand, nor spoke a word of welcome. Nor did he ex- 
pect such a reception. He went there for a purpose and he ful- 
filled it. Nor did he parley wath the lawless men who by high- 
handed means had sought to thwart and nullify the judgment 
of the court, but at once "discharged the defendant from cus- 
tody" in a way they could understand. 

Judge Ozias Bowen's written opinion, now before me. was 
pitblished in full in the Ohio Statesman, also a lengthy letter by 
the judge, in answer to McClanahan's. and much other matter re- 
lating to the riot at Marion appeared in that paper. 

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The editor of the Ohio Statesman, at the time of which I 
write, ( 1839-40, ) was called hy the editors of ( )hio Whig- papers, 
"Lvino- Sam. Aledarv," hut with all his faults he was a man of 
tact and good connnon sense, who stood by his convictions, and 
loyally by his friends. He was not afraid to publish any article 
of any kind or any letter written by a Whig, but in doing so his 
caustic criticisms were often as annoying to the W'hig writer and 
his friends, as they were pleasing to the Democratic readers of 
the paper. As a partisan journalist, Medary's life was a war- 
fare, and he was probal)ly not very scrupulous in his dealings 
with political adversaries, for he looked upon them all as enemies, 
to be downed by fair means or foul. But he ^ was not a coward, 
— far from it. 

^ Samuel Medary, born in Pa.. Feb. 25, 1801. a printer by trade, was 
a Democrat politician, and many years editor of the Ohio Statesman, and 
later of the Cri.sis. He declined the appointment of Minister to Chili in 
1855. He was Governor of Minnesota Territory in 1S57-S. and of Kansas 
in 1859-60. He died at his home in Columbus, O., Nov. 7, 1864. His daughter 
Flora, who marrieu Col. Richard Nevins. and .joined the Catholic Church, 
was by many considered the most beautiful and fascinating woman in the 
Stat^ Her daug'hter Mary Nevins, who was divorced from James G. Blaine. 
Jr., son of the great statesman, afterwards married a prominent physician, 
of New York City, whose practice was very lucrative. 



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CHAPTER XIV 

ACURRESi'OXDENT of the Ohio State I'.nlletin, (a Co- 
lumbus daily paper,) over the Jioni dc plume, "( )qua- 
noxa," wrote several lengthy letters touching the slave 
case, more or less abusive of Bovven, Anderson, Watson, Spelman, 
Fisher, Powell, and others, for the course they pursued before, 
during-, or after the trial. His first letter on the "Marion Riot," 
]niblished ()ctol)er if), i83(), he begins bv saving: "I have seen 
two versions of the late riot which occurred in ''' °'' Marion, 
during the late session of the Court of Common Pleas, ''' * 
one in the Marion A'isiter, and the other in the Pucvrus Demo- 
crat. Those * ''' one-sided statements having" been copied 
l)y other papers are so well calculated to create a false im])ression 
al)road that I am induced to furnish vou with a statement of facts 
as thev occurred. * * P)efore 1 commence my narrative I will 
here state that I disclaim being an eye-witness to the disgraceful 
transaction, as T was not there at the time, nor am I a resident 
of the * * count V. lUit what T state is susceptible of the 
clearest proof." 

The corresjxjndent then says that on July 17, 1830, one Adnah 
\'an r>il;)ber made an affidavit before John Bartram, J. P., that 
his runawav 'slave P)lack \\\\\, whom he was seeking to recover, 
was then secreted in Marion, in Mr. L. Baker's tavern; that th.e 
friends of \'an r>il)ber. who had accompanied him to Marion. 
kei)t a watch on the tavern while the magistrate was i)rei)aring a 
warrant for the slave's arrest, that during this watch they were 
"blackg'uarded in the coarsest and most j^rovoking manner." that 
Mr. E. G. Sp^elman, and \\'illiam Fisher, boarders at the tavern, 
"em|)loved their foul and lei)roiis tongues in heaping upon these 
men the most op])robrious and i)rovokin,g epithets," that after the 
slave's arrest he was taken before Judge Bowen who C(intinued 
the case, and sent the negro to jail for safe keei)ing', and that "the 
next morning" another torrent of abtise was showered * ''' on 
the Virginians b\- this same clan of courteous gentlenien." He 
sa\'s further that on the dav set for the hearing, ( icneral Rowe. 
and later Charles Sv.eetser. appeared for the claimant, and ( iod- 

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man and Watson for the defendant, that during the trial there 
were "multitudes of people among whom were Quakers and loose 
negroes having no manner of business at court," "whose evident 
intention was to rescue the slave." 

He describes the conduct of the spectators in the court house 
after Bill's discharge, the removal of the negro by the claimant's 
party, the infuriated mob of 200 or more that followed, hurling 
stones and other missiles at the Southerners and their friends, 
till they arrived at the office of the justice, where he says they 
were met at the door by Mr. Bartram. the justice, who had been 
notified beforehand of their intention to try the negro again be- 
fore him under a law of the United States. "The crowd * * 
completely filled and blocked up the alley between Mr. Stokes' 
hotel and Mr. Bartram's office." "Many citizens," he avers, "from 
whom better things were expected than to be open participants in 
the doings of a lawless and crazy mob, began to cry out most 
vociferously for the surrender of the slave." 

"At this critical juncture E. ti. Spelman, Everett Messenger, 
Alexander Sprung and dthers, appeared, armed to the teeth with 
the public arms, muskets with bayonets. * * Mr. Bartram 
then called on Mr. N. M. Leatherberry,i to aid him in keeping 
the mob out of the office, and in keeping the peace", * * "and 
called on every man to assist in keeping the peace". * * "Here 
the scene beggars all description. The savage and fiendish looks, 
and I will add conduct of the abolitionists and their adherents, 
showed at once what the horrible consequences to our common 
country would be should abolitionism, that hydra-headed mon- 
ster, once gain the ascendency (which may heaven in its in- 
finite mercy forbid!) in our hitherto happy country. I am more 
than ever convinced that abolitionism is not actuated by any 
exuberance of human kindness, or commisseration for the slaves 
in the slaveholding states." Here he describes Mr. Spelman pre- 
senting a "musket with bayonet fixed, at the breasts of Bartram 
and Leatherberry, swearing violence if they did not give up the 
negro." 

> It is amusing even after tlie lapse of 64 years, to read that a respect- 
able man like Bartram, would call on Noah M. Leatherberry to aid him 
in keeping the peace. 

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"One of the associate judges," he goes on, "emulous of im- 
mortal fame and renown, the laurels to be gained in this glorious 
contest, left the bench and presented himself under the specious 
pretence of l)eing a conservator of the public peace, was ad- 
mitted into the office, and I am credibly informed that as soon as 
he gained admittance he ordered peremptorily the men who had 
charge of the slave to let him loose, which was done. xA.bout the 
same time Mr. Spelman entered, and he was heard to order his 
clan to come in at the back door, to prevent which the door was 
locked." * * * "A Mr. Nathan Peters was also admitted into 
the office, who afterwards proved to be one of the rioters, and 
but little (loul)t remains that either he or Judge Anderson, un- 
locked the back door, and admitted a sufficient numlier of the 
mobocrats to rescue the negro, and to take him out of the back 
door. After which he was ordered to run. Suffice it to say, the 
slave made his escape." 

In his second letter, also lengthy, about the Marion Riot, 
published in the ( ). S. Bulletin, October 30, 1839, the corre- 
spondent, (()quanoxa). says, "that John l^artram the justice of 
the peace, was arrested and taken before the court, that the 
arrest was made hv three of the abolition rioters : E. G. Spel- 
man, Nathan Peters, and Everett JMessenger, a short time after 
the slave had eifected his escape," and that "the persons most 
guilty of overt, infractions of the laws * * are now clothed 
with the power and authority of lictors to the court". * * 

"S])ecifications were tiled against most of the persons arrested, 
and intlictments were also found against A"an Bibber, McClana- 
han, Goshorn. Kline, Rowe, and Sweetser. The two latter gen- 
tlemen being the plaintiiT's counsel, although guilty of no acts 
violatory of the laws of the land, yet were held in durance vile 
and ])unishe(r". 

"But now mark ye, 'tell it not in Gath,' but as a faithful 
narrator 1 am bound to let it be published in the streets of 
Askelon, not one of the rioters were punished, although it was 
proven that Mr. Richardson threw stones with great violence 
at those having charge of the slave, * * It was also proven that 
Mr. Spelman j^resented a musket with l)ayonet fixed, to the 
-breasts of Messrs. Bartrani and Leatherberry, accompanied with 

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a threat of runiiim;' tlicm throug'h, which in all ])rol)al)ilitv, such 
was tht savai^e and tiendish disposition manifested on that dc- 
casion. would have been done had not Mr. Rodney Spaulding. ' 
interfered b}- dnshin;^' the inusket to one side. * * * 

"\o\\ why should these men (from Kanawha), he stigma- 
tized with the name of 'kidnappers, 'thieves,' etc. ? * '■' They 
are men of good standing at home and esteemed l)y all who know 
tlitm. The sheriff of Marion county made inquiry, and learned 
that the standing at home of the Vii"ginians was good. '■' '■' * 
I must be permitted to express my honest convictions that the 
court used the Virginians, their attorneys, and friends, oppres- 
sively and harshly, yea tmfairly, though in charity I hope unin- 
tentionally so". '■' * * "I regard the act of rescuing the slave 
from the Virginians * * * as not one whit better than rob- 
bery, or land piracy. * * I will here state, and the Virginians 
if now present would say the same, that many of the citizens of 
Marion treated them with all the friendship, courtesy, and hospi- 
tality, so common in well regulated and virtuous comnuuiities".- 

Here is a short letter from Judge Thomas J. Anderscm. that 
was published in the Ohio State Bulletin, Nov. 20, i83(). in which 
he properly characterizes the anonymous writer "Ociuanoxa," and 
says he ought to know his real name : 

"Marion, Nove-mbLT !>!. ]t<:V.l 
Dear .Sir: — Tn a lale number of your pai)er f o1)sltvc thai my 
name is brouglu before tlie public by a writer who signs liimseTf (^qua- 
noxa. As the writer is confessedly ignorant of the facts he nmlertakes 
to relate, no act or assertion of his own could assign to liim any otlier 
position than tliat of a miseralde slave led by an unseen dastard'> liand. 
Tliis is! the natural ])osition of that writer, and had your editorial remarks 
not given him charactei', it would not liave l)een necessary for nie to 
have taken a passing notice of liim or his j^recious communication. \'ou 
say that r)(|uanoxa is a gentleman of talent and standing in conununity. 
If such be the fact, and I do not iiresume to doubt your word. lie can 
liave n(j objection to letting his name accompany statements wliicii he 
represents as 'susceptible of the clearest proof.' If any gentleman will' 

' Rodney Spaulding: was a merchant and a brother of Lyman S. A 
sister married Mr. E. O. Spelman. who moved to Kenton. C, and became 
a iirominent lawyer. Anotlier sister married Gen. James S. Uoliinson of 
Kenton, who l)^M;inii' prominent in the civil war, and later in public affairs. 

- Tlie correspondent Ociuanoxa, writes as if the "rioters" were the respect- 
able people of Marion who saved Black Bill from being kidnapped and car- 
ried away. 

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hazard tlie assertion of Oquanoxa I would be pleased to know him. Let 
the legal import of Oquanoxa's statements be what it may. they are 
evidently calculated and designed to charge against myself dishonorable 
conduct as a man and a,s an officer: and in making them he assumes 
the functions of a witness, and I ought to know the name of the person 
I am to hold responsible as my accuser. 

I am, respect f idly. 

T. J. Anoekson, 
John A. Bryan, Esq., Ilditoy O. S. Bnllctin." 

After Thomas J. Anderson. W'ilhain Fisher, and Cooper K. 
Watson, had requested the true name of the writer of tlie Oqua- 
noxa letters, the somewhat notorious Wyandot Indian, Wilham 
Walker ^ of Upper Sandusky, eame out and avowed himself the 
atithor. Few l^elieved this, for they considered Sweetser, whose 
malionant disposition was well known, the real author, and 
Walker his catspaw. They were hoon companions, and the lat- 
ter's education fitted him for the task of puttinj;" the former's 
inventions into fairly ^ood English. 

William Walker's father, William Walker, Sr..- was a white 
man who was taken cai)tive hv Delaware Indians when ten or 
eleven. years old, and later adopted hv the Wyandots, to whom 
he had been sold. He was a person- of influence in the tribe, 
spoke the English and Wvandijt languages with equal facility, 
and ^N2iS a friend of the missionaries and of the Methodist 
mission. His children became Methodists, but William con- 
tracted dissipated habits, pro])a])ly after the death of his father, 
and fell from grace. William Walker, Sr., dying January 22, 
1824, his son William •'' took his place as the head of the family, 
and an influential factor in the trilie. But in mental e(iuii)oise and 



lA life of V^^illiam Walker, (with two portraits), was published at 
Lincoln. Neb., in 1890. in a work of 42.S pages, entitled "The Provisional 
Government of Nebraska Territory, and the Journals of William Walker, 
Piovisional Governor of Nebraska Territory." P.y William K. Connelley. 
an able writer of Topeka, Kansas. 

- For an account of William Walker's father, see History of American 
Missions: Worcester. 1840: and Finley's History of the Wyandot Mission. 

3 Gov. William Walker, son of William and Catherine Rankin Walker, 
was born in what is now Wayne County. Michigan. March .5. 1800. He 
came to Upper Sandusky, with his parents in 1813. (See Walker's letter, 
in Crawford's Campaign, p. 1.54). He was educated under the direction of 
Bishop Chase, at Worthington. Ohio, and understood French, (his moth- 
er's tongue), and Latin, and Greek, and spoke five Indian languages. He 
was married in Upper Sandusky, April 8, 1824, to Miss Harmah Barrett, 
a student at the Mission School. Five children were born, two sons and' 

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common sense, he was inferior to his father, while he had far more 
vanity and less self-control. And before the year 1840 his head 
was turned by the flattery of Indian agents, and other design- 
ing- white men, who were making use of him to induce the tribe 
to sell out and go west. 

My father advised the Christian Indians not to cede the 
Wyandot Reservation to the Government. William, or Bill as he 
was commonly called, didn't relish this advice, nor the advice 
quietly given him personally tc^ drink less; and wdien he was 
told that his course was bringing reproach on the church he got 
angr\-. This well-meant admonition so offended the haughty In- 
dian that ever after he stood aloof and their friendship was 
broken. He was puffed up with the idea that he was an educated 
gentleman ; and was always boasting of his "native American 
and bounding Irish blood." In the bar-room where he sought the 
company of convivial people who humored his foibles, he 
"treated" w ith a lavish hand. At last liquor mastered him. He 
was never, I think, what is known as a sot, but for many years 
he was a very hard drinker. His drink was always whisky or 
l)randy, and whenever I saw him he was fuddled. 

I saw him in Marion, prior to the exodus of the Wyandots 
in 1843, in Kansas in 1857, i" 1858- ^"<-^ iii 1866, and later in 
Ohio. The last time T saw this once bright Indian was in Upper 
Sandusky, in the summer of 1873, thirtv years after the removal 
of his trilx'. He was then in a jolly crowd and very mellow. 
Hon. John Berry, M. C, Hon. Curtis Berry, Jr., Hon. Robert 
McKeily, Hon. S. M. Worth, Judge C. R. Mott, and other old- 
time friends were present. Walker was probably under the in- 

tl;ree daug-hters. His wife died Decemlier 7. 18li.''>. April 6, 1805, he married 
Mrs. Evelina J. Barrett, of Hardin County, Ohio, widow of a brother of 
his first wife. She died August 28, 1868. William Walker died February 
l.S, 1874. "He was an ardent Democrat, and a slave holder. He hated 
abolitionism, and contended for * * * slavery." "He was never a seces- 
sionist, but loyal to hi.s country." He was a member of the Lecompton Con- 
stitutional Convention, in Kansas, and was probably the most prominent, 
learned, and capable Indian that ever lived in the country. His father, 
bcrn in Greenbrier, Va.. in 1770, and captured by the Indians in 1781, was 
married in 1788, and died at Upper Sandusky, July 22, 1824. His wife 
Catherine Rankin, born June 4, 1771. died at Upper Sandusky, in December 
1844. She was descended from a French .g-entleman named Montour, who 
settled in Canada in 1667. Her mother, Mary Montour, born it is said in 
1756. married James Rankin, born in county Tyrone, Ireland, and for many 
years a high offirial in America of the Hudson Bay Company. 

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fluence of spirits when, advised and directed by the wily Sweet- 
ser, he wrote the anonymous and other vulgar letters about "The 
Marion Riot," — a subject on which he had no personal knowl- 
edge whatever. 

Although Cooper K. Watson, in his answer (in the Bulletin) 
to the letters of Oquanoxa, otherwise Walker, twitted him on 
his habits, and advised "depletion and the steam bath," I do not 
think the marks of dissipation (even in old age) were ever very 
plain on the countenance of that slim, black-haired, dark-com- 
plexioned, wiry Indian. His face scarcely betrayed Iiis ungovern- 
al)le appetite and ruling passion, 

I infer that ~he was fond of composition, or wanted to see 
his name in ])rint, for he wrote a good deal for the papers. 
His communications were generally lengthy and often bitter. 
Quotations from Shakespeare, in which he was rarely accurate, 
figured in nearly all. He used many quotation marks, capital 
letters, dashes and italics, and rarely used a short word if he 
could find a long uncommon one that expressed his meaning. 
His writings were readable : 1 hardly know why, for he was far 
from a literar}- architect in the construction of a sentence or in 
the treatment of any subject. His sentences were often involved, 
too lengthy, pompous, and ungrammatical. As a writer he was 
caustic, but in society disposed to be amiable rather than quarrel- 
some. 

In (Jhio. William Walker was a pro-slavery Whig, l)ut in 
Kansas he became a pro-slavery Democrat. Before the cession 
of the Reservation he was the postmaster at Upper Sandusky 
for a])Out twenty years. In the Ohio Sfafcsinaii of February 28, 
1840, Sam. Medary, the editor, gave him this notice: "We hint 
to Mr. Walker, the Whig postmaster at Upper Sandusky, that 
we cannot hereafter print his ribaldry in our paper. We have 
done it heretofore because he was a Whig Indian, but as the 
Whigs have taken all the negroes into their ranks also, we shall 
hereafter make no distinction on account of color in the aboli- 
tion federal Whig party. Since the 22nd of the month ^ we have 
held and shall hold the opposition of every grade and color to 
their professions." This no doubt touched the pride and greatly 

1 The date of the great Whig State Convention in Columbus. 

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offended William, for he was a proslavery man mainly because 
he wanted the people to understand the distinction, the immense 
difference, between the Indian and the negro, or man of color. 
-Medary ^ was cunning enough to know the effect that such an as- 
sociation and equalization of the two races would have on the 
mind of the haughty Wyandot, and it doubtless afforded him 
considerable amusement. 

In William Walker's letter, published in the Bulletin on 
the 27th of November, 1839, he says: "As to Judge Anderson's 
letter J am at a loss to understand it. Such another piece of 
bombast I have not lately met with. He says in one place 'as the 
writer is confessedly ignorant of the facts related, etc' Not so 
fast my good sir. 1 have never confessed I was ignorant of the 
facts related. I only disclaimed being an eye-witness to the dis- 
graceful transactions, and to being a citizen of Marion." Here 
\\'alker quotes from McCIanahan's letter in the Ricliiiioiid IVhig, 
to show that his own version of the affair was the correct one, 
and continues: "He (Judge Anderson) says something about 
the 'legal inqiort of my statements." I fear, greatly fear, that 
this has a squinting towards sending one of the 'lictors' of the 
court to arrest me for a contempt." 

' When Medary was appointed governor of Kansas Territory (November 
19. 18.58), he and Walker again became friendly. Their political views were 
then the same. Over their toddy they told storie.s, and talked of old 
times in Ohio, and l)ecame quite chummy. Walker named his favorite 
fighting cock "Samuel Medai-y." See his diary in Provisional Government 
of Neb. Ter.. p. 157. 



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CHAPTER XV 

COOPER K. WATSON^ in a very lengthy letter dated No- 
vember 12, 1839, published in the Ohio State Bitllctiii, 
November 27th, says : "A writer who calls himself 
'( )(juanoxa" has given the pul)lic through your paper two articles 
which he is i)leased to head witli the imposing caption of 'The 
Marion Riot.' This writer has in the latter article brought my 
name before the [public and loaded it down with a mass of the 
foulest slander. '■' '■' " He has not the evidence ol a single 
sense for any occurrence which he relates. * * * This moral 
assassin who is confessedly without any knowledge of what he 
]Hiblishes * * * 'is induced to give a statement of facts, etc' 
Whv it is that a ])erson who saw nothing of the difficult\- which he 
pretends to relate should attempt to contradict public journals, 
and correct public opinion ■■' ■''' * is enough to excite the 
'special wonder" of the reader. * * * This 'faithful narra- 
tor' '■' * '■- states that I was * * '•' guilt\- of '•' '■' * 
maladministration of the duties of my office on that occasion. 

"The first fact stated in connection with any duty of mine is 
that 'John IVartram, Esq., through his counsel asked to be dis- 
charged as he was not in the court house when the riot com- 
menced, ctmsequently could not l)e guilty of contempt of court. 
The pfosecuting attorney thereupon stated that he did not know 
why he had been arrested.' I presume Oquanoxa can see noth- 
ing like maladministration of office in that. I presiune Mr. Bar- 
tram would not so construe that reply. 

"The next ])art of the 'Narrative' is aimed at me. * * * 
'There were strange ])roceedings in and about the court, mostlv 
concealed from the public eye. and I can only arrive at the 

' .Judge Cooper K. Watson, was ))orn in Jefferson County, Ky., on tlie 
ISth of June 1810. He died in Sandusky. Ohio, wliile Judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas, Thursday, May 20, 1880. His wife, Mrs. Caroline Durkee 
Watson, an aunt of Mrs. James H. Anderson of Columbus, Ohio, was born 
at Marietta, Ohio, April 9, 1810. She died at the residence of her daughter. 
Mrs. Eleanor Lovelace Watson Loomis, in Tiffin, Ohio, August ."!, 1884. 
The judge was a very aljle man. and his wife a very attractive woman. 
Two accomplished grandchildren, John C. Loomis. and his sister Mary 
resemble both in many respects. 

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foul play and gross oppression on that occasion by the results. 
Specifications were filed against most of the persons arrested, 
and indictments were also found against \'an Bibber, McClana- 
han, Goshorn, Kline, Rowe, and Sweetser. * * * Mr. Rich- 
ardson threw stones with great violence against those having 
charge of the slave, but no indictment was found. * * * Mr. 
Spelman presented a musket with bayonet fixed to the breast of 
Messrs. Bartram and Leatherberry, accompanied with the threat 
of running them through. Yet * * * the grand jury could 
see nothing in all this that merited punishment, although they 
had the benefit of the sage advice of the prosecuting attorney.' 

"Now if these charges mean anything they mean that the 
fifteen grand jurors * * * have wantonly violated their 
duties, and indicted men guilty of no ofl^ence, and refused to 
indict others who were guilty of high crimes, * -^ * and 
that their proceedings have been sanctioned by myself. * * * 
It may be well to ask, is Oquanoxa the vile sewer through which 
an overcharged receptacle of filth and falsehood is discharging 
itself? ''•' * * Yes, the grand jurors were faithfully investi- 
gating the conduct of all parties in that unfortunate affair, while 
Oquanoxa was far from the scene ; and where for aught we 
know he may have been — not 'mewling and puking in the nurse's 
arms' — liut doing the latter in a fence corner. * ''•' * The 
grand iur\ on that occasion examined more witnesses than ever 
before. Among those witnesses were many of our first men, 
men before whose displeasure Oquanoxa would crouch with the 
humilitv of a slave. With such witnesses before fifteen sworn 
jurors I cannot believe any right was in jeopardy. * * * 

" 'Gross oppression' is charged, but we are not informed in 
what it consisted. * * * It is not in the specifications for 
contempt : it is not in the indictments. Is it because the grand 
jury did not indict Mr. Spelman, or Mr. Richardson? * * * 
There was no 'oppression.' * * * The charge .of 'oppression' 
is the offspring of a * * * disordered imagination. * * * 
The prosecuting attorney is an ofiicer of the court, subject if he 
acts improperly to be displaced on the application of any person. 
For the information of the aggrieved in this case I refer them 
to the third section of the act of the Ohio legislature in relation 
to prosecuting attorneys, passed February 26,. 183.9. * * * It 

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may be that I have now sufficiently answered Oquanoxa's false- 
hoods. * * * When these charges were first set afloat * * * 
I called upon William \an I'.uskirk, foreman of the grand jury, 
advised with him * * * and the other jurors, and received 
from them the statements given below : 

"Whereas I understand that reports have been put in circulation 
concerning the official conduct of C. K. Watson, as prosecuting attorney 
of Marion County, Ohio, during the August term A. D. 1839. of the 
Court of Common Pleas, and whereas these reports have represented Mr. 
Watson as interfering with the deliberations of the grand-jurors, refus- 
ing to furnisli indictments, suppressing testimony, and declining to con- 
duct prosecutions: now I take this method of stating that so far as my 
knowledge of Mr. Watson's course extends he is free from any such 
imputations. The grand-jury had a laborious session, and I thought 
that Mr. Watson conducted the business of his office with tlie most 
perfect fairness. As foreman of the grand- jury, I frecjuently called on 
Mr. Watson, for instructions, for papers, and for testimony to aid in 
our deliberations, and I never found him backward about inquiring into 
any matter which tlie jurors wished to investigate. That Mr. Watson 
ever refused to conduct any prosecution for us is utterly false. As 
grand-jurors we made sucli investigations as we chose, and drew such 
conclusions as to us appeared rational and proper, without check, liindrance. 
or interference from Mr. Watson. 

Wm. Van Ruskikk, 
Foreman grand-jury, Marion Co., O., Aug. term, 1839. 

Marion, October 11, 1839.' 

I acted as a member of the same grand-jury with Esquire Van 
Buskirk, as above set forth, and sij far as I am acc|uainted with Mr. 
Watson's course as prosecutor, concur in the aljove statements. Mr. 
Watson acted with the utmost propriety. I have no doubt he was 
governed by correct motives. He did not on any occasion interfere 
improperly with our deliberations. He was always willing to serve us, 
and from the commencement to the close of a laborious and tedious 
session of the grand-jury, he did not once refuse to bring before us 
witnesses on any subject. He did not interfere with our arrangements 
in investigating or deciding questions. Nor did he in any way embarrass 
free and full inquiry. 

Marion, Nov. 4, 1839. S.\muel Bowdish. 

We acted as members of the grand- jury as above set forth, and 
concur fully in the above statements. Benjamin McNeal, John R. Snider, 
Isaac Rice, Amos A. Boynton, William Irwin, John Bobb, Isaac DeWitt, 
Geo. W. Purvis, E. Underwood, Joseph Boyd, Sen., Joseph Court, George 
King, Elislia Parker." 

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I addressed to Mr. Powell,^ of Delaware, a letter of which the 
following is a copy : 

"'Marion, Ohio, Nov. 4, 1839. 

Dear Sir: — I have l)cen subjected to every species of slander for 
my course as prosecuting attorne)' during our last term of court. 1 am 
accused of refusing lo conduct prosecutions, of preventing witnesses 
from going before the grand jury, and of oppressing and treating unfairly 
the claimants of Black Bill. I am also accused of closing 'the -avenues 
to justice' against all who were friendly to the claimants. Now' as to 
my feelings and motives cm that occasion, you are perhaps a better judge 
than any other man living, as I conferred more with you about the 
business of the prosecution during that term than with any other person. 
I felt that the place of prosecutor involved heavy responsibility, and 
consequently advised with you in almost every step in the performance 
of my duties. You went before the grand-jury and otherwise assisted 
me in the business of my oihce. 

There was much business thrown upon the grand-jury, and several 
persons seemed determined to assume the functions of prosecuting attor- 
ney. They accordingly sent specifications to the jurors, brought their 
witnesses to the clerk's stand, and had some of them sworn and sent 
to the grand-jury without saying aught to me. This I then thought 
and now think was wrong, l^uit that I ever refused to allow any wit- 
nesses to go before the grand-jury is utterly -false. I only claimed the 
right of having the business transacted through myself. As counsel 
for the State t maintained that right, and would do so again. If a 
])rosecutor must abandon the grand-jury to the control of others, he 
must do so to a mob if they connnand him, and thus that strong arm 
of justice would be paralyzed. Am I correct? 1 wish you to speak to 
me freely in this matter. For if in searching myself I tind that aught 
has been done in an improper spirit in the premises, I wish to look it 
fairly in the face and meet the responsibility in the right way. If you 
saw aught that indicated an improper motive, if you saw any bad feeling, 
I wish to know it. 

I am, dear sir, most respectfully, 

Cooper K. Watson. 
To r. W. Poii'cll Esq. Dclincarc Ohio.' 

To this letter. Mr. Powell responded in the following full and 
explicit terms : 



1 Judge Thomas W. Powell, a prominent lawyer and citizen as well 
as an author, was born September 7, 1797. in Glamorganshire, Wales, came 
to the United States with his father in 1800: and died at his beautiful 
home in Delaware, Ohio, December 2.3, 1883. During his active career he 
held many important positions. 



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'Delaware, Nov. 9, 1839. 

Dear Sir : • — Your letter of the 4th instant was received the tore- 
part of this week, and I very much regret that unavoidable business has 
prevented me from answering it until now. 

It grieves me very much to know that the affair of Black Bill at 
your last court has been so unjustly used as a means to persecute you. 
But you must not grieve that such is your misfortune, but console your- 
self in the reflection that unjust persecution has been the lot of the best 
of men, and that honest discharge of duty, and conscientious rectitude 
of conduct, have been frequently misrepresented and made the founda- 
tion i>f the basest slander. 

In relation to that affair I believe that I am intimate with every 
circunistance that transpired, ami I believe that I can safely say that 
during the whole of the transaction from the first morning of the Court 
•of Common Pleas, to the last of it, you consulted me, first as a friend, 
and afterwards as an assistant counsel; and I believe that there was 
an entire concurrence of opinions l)elween us except as to one slight 
difference as to the mode of procedure, and in that you afterwards con- 
curred, and that concurrence resulted in favor of the Virginians. 

I can have ample testimcjny that during all this transaction you 
manifested the strongest disposition to discharge your duty diligently 
and honestly. You did perfectly right to give direction to the clerk not 
to swear any one to go before the grand-jury witliout first consulting 
you. You as prosecuting attorney were responsible for the correct and 
proper prosecution of the cases before the grand-jury. The law makes 
you the organ by whom and through whom the business of the grand- 
jury is conducted. Should there be an improper prosecution of a 
frivolous case, you would l)e in a great measure responsible f(U" the resvdt, 
because you are the legal adviser of the grand-jury on ])ehalf of the 
state, and the organ by and through whom the business of the state is 
conducted. Should a prosecuting attorney improperly exercise his official 
powers, the cotu't woidd correct it upon application. 

Should a grand-juror request the prosecuting attorney to send a 
particular witness before them, it would be unquestionably his duty to 
have such a witness sworn and sent before them. But it would be 
wrong for the clerk to swear any one to go before the grand-jury with- 
out the direction of the prosecuting attorney. And the prosecuting 
attorney ought not to send such witness without examining the case, 
and knowing it to be a proper case for such procedure. I ani therefore 
happy of the opportunity of saying that I saw no improper conduct, nor 
suspected any on your part in the discharge of your official duties as 
prosecuting attorney at the last term of the Court of Common Pleas 
at Marion, nor aught but a faithful and honest discharge of your duty. 
If I can be of any further service in doing you justice I shall at any 

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lime be happy of tlie opportunity. But at present you must excuse the 
haste of this. 

Your friend, etc., 
To C. K. Jl'atsoii, Esq. T. W. Powell.' 

I have now given the facts in reference to my own course as I 
understood them. My own views of my course, my rights and my 
duties, arc fully sustained by every member of the grand-jury, and the 
able and experienced counsel who was associated with me. Have I not 
shown enough to satisfy the candid reader that 'Oquanoxa' is not trying 
to give 'facts as they occurred' ? 

I have shown that Oquanoxa's wholesale allegations are not sustained 
by facts, that his specific charges are miserable shuffling devices, pre- 
pared to mislead and not correct public opinion. In short I have shown 
that he has not made a material statement in reference to myself that 
has truth to sustain it. Had I not extended my article far beyond the 
limits of my original intention, I should now try to defend the members 
of the court against the low insinuations, and foul aspersions that Oqua- 
noxa^ has published concerning them. It is my duty to do so. It is 
the duty of every well-wisher of society to defend our courts of justice 
when they are assailed by the weapons of falsehood. Another occasion 
however may present an opportunity tn perform that duty. I therefore 
forego further remark. 

Most respectfully, 

Marion. Noi'. 12, 1839. C. K. Watson." 

Watson's letter, like most of the letters written for the press 
sixty or seventy years ago, was very lengthy, and in selecting a 
sentence here and there for publication, I have no doubt lessened 
its force and effect by impairing its continuity and possibly to 
some extent its vitality. 

1 Note. In "The Provisional Government of Nebraska Territory," th& 
author, in spealcing- of Hon. William Walker, (page 18), says: "He who 
first bore the title of governor of that territory embraced within the 
present bounds of Kansas and Nebraska, sleeps upon the banks of the 
Missouri River, at the mouth of the Kansas. To the shame of both states, 
be it said, no monument of any kind marks his last resting place." 

Gov. Walker's favorite poem. "Oft in the stilly night," which he loved 
to repeat, and which he copied in his journal, was also a favorite of" 
many of the Wyandots. 



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CHAPTER XVI 

IN the Ohio State Bulletin of January 31, 1840, William Walker 
again appears, and again pays his respects to Cooper K. 
Watson, whose letter of November 12, 1839, he undertakes 
to reply to, while renewing charges of "gross oppression" in of- 
fice. "The gentleman * * * says I know nothing about the 
facts I relate. * * * Will nothing short of occular demon- 
stration satisfy this profound logician, this modern Cicero?" 
Hear Mr. Walker on the subject of oppression. "Has not Mr. 
Charles Sweetser, one of the counsel for the Virginians, been 
most outrageously oppressed and abused by this coca-demon, this 
cadaverous prosecuting attorney, backed and hissed on by two 
judges, [Bowen and Anderson], whose supple tool he is? Has 
Mr. S. realized any of the tender mercies of the court? Has 
anything indicating a disposition in the gentleman himself to 
avoid 'vexatious arrests' manifested itself? What ha? Mr. Sweet- 
ser received at his hands? Nothing but gross personal abuse, 
nothing but the effusions of the coarsest vulgarity that his addled 
brain, and morbid imagination could conjure up, or personal 
enmity could invent ; this too in open court while conducting the 
prosecution. Has not Mr. S. been put to expense and loss of 
time? Has not his 'arrest' been a most 'vexatious' one to him? 
A trial was had at the December term (1839) of the Com- 
mon Pleas, for Marion county, in this case, on which occasion 
this redoubtable prosecutor distinguished himself by works of 
official supererogation, determined to immolate his victim upon 
the altar of personal malevolence, and notwithstanding all his 
log-rolling, Ijrowbeating, and lecturing of the jury empaneled to 
try the cause, they refused to bring in a verdict of guilty, (not 
being able to agree upon one ) , and were discharged. 

"The cause is still pending, and the party oppressed has been 
compelled to appeal to the Legislature, by preferring articles of 
impeachment against the two judges, (Bowen and Anderson), 
and to trust that \-ven-luindcd justice' will be meted out to these 
two high functionaries. What was Mr. Sweetser's offense? It 
was refusing to be dragged off to the filthy jail by the sheriff 

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(luring- a recess of the court. * * * But I forbear following 
up the gentleman's arguincntnui ad captaiiduui z'lilgiis any fur- 
ther. I had not intended answering it in cxtciiso. * * * The 
prolix communication carries its own antidote ; like the counte- 
nance of the author, it carries with it an ample passport to the 
pillory." What Walker says about "the countenance of the 
author" is amusing, for Watson was a very handsome man of 
striking appearance. Walker further says that Hon. Thomas 
W. Powell, of Delaware, (author of the foregoing letter), "is 
ol)noxious to the charge of being an open participant in the 
riot, and is in feeling and prejudice with the gentleman he so 
pathetically condoles and defends. * * * He, Cooper Katy- 
did Watson, (I like to write the whole name), appears not 
to understand how * * * a man writing anonymously is 
not necessarily * * * mean, low and cowardly. * * * 
Hear the vile epithets bestowed on me for writing over the sig- 
nature of 'Oquanoxa', (a revered name, the name of a dis- 
tinguished Ottawa chief, a warrior, an orator, who if he did but 
shake his tomahawk over the head of the gentleman, you, Mr. 
Editor, would hear such screams if present, as to induce you 
to believe the last kaell of time had sounded) : 'petty anonymous 
scribbler,' 'moral assassin,' 'concealed slanderer,' etc. * * * 

"Notwithstanding his labored attempt to convince the public 
of his * * * innocence of the charge preferred against him, 
he cannot avoid * * * indulging in gross personalities. Let 
me repeat at least one chaste morcean' from the pen of this 
American Addison : 'for aught we know he may have been — 
not mewling and puking in his nurse's lap, but doing the latter 
in a fence corner.' Now I appeal to any * '•' * well-bred 
person to sav whether * * * this is not enough to satisfy 
any one of the character of the writer. * * * Hq (Watson) 
knows little of me if he supposes I am capable of being made 
to 'crouch' before any mortal. It does not belong to me or to 
any of my race either on my paternal or maternal side to 'crouch* 
to any man or set of men. I hurl back with indignation and 
contempt the imputation." 

The feeling in Marion became intense ; relations, political, 
social and religious, were strained : men long friends hardly 
spoke to each other, and this estrangement continued for years. 

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There were abolitionists in Marion count}' in iS,V,, and the trial 
and escape of I'lack liill had not probably greatly lessened their 
number; hut the name ai'.oi ijionist, far from Ijeing pleasuig to 
the ear had l)ecome so unpo])ular that only a few independent, 
courageous persons openly avowed abolition principles. The weak 
and timid joined the other side, or said nothing, "laid low and 
kept dark." The offices of the county changed hands; from 
a Whig county, Marion gradually became Democratic. A few 
prominent proslavery men like Major George H. Busby left the 
Whig and joined the Democrat party. The change however, 
in the county's political complexion was caused mainly by 
(I) the influx (^f foreigners, Irish and (lermans, and (2) by 
the erection of the new counties of Wyandot and Morrow, which 
took from Marion several strong Whig townships, including the 
Quaker element. With the exception of two colonies, the people 
of Marion County ])ri()r to 1839 were nearly all native Ameri- 
cans, who catue from \'irginia, 13elaware, Kentucky, and other 
southern states, and froiu IVnuisylvania, New York and New 
Jersey. There were only a few from New England. The Eng- 
lish who settled Claridon township. 1819-23, were Whigs, and 
generally Methodists ; the Pennsylvania-Dutch who settled Rich- 
land township, 1820-30, and the (Jermans, 1830-40, were mostly 
Democrats and Lutherans. There were few if any Catholics in 
that countv in which the\- are now so numerous. 

The following is an extract from a letter written by James 
Boyle, dated l^ecemlier 9, 1839, and published in Cincinnati, in 
"The Philanthropist," l^iesday, December 24, 1839; 

■•THE CELEBRATED SLAVE CASE IN MARION. OHIO. 

"Saturday we rode intn Marion, and soon found several warm 
friends to tlie cause of anti-slavery, among whom I lake pleasure in 
mentioning the old school Presbyterian, and Universalist ministers. But 
all were united in judging it unsafe and unwise to lecture in Marion' 
at the present time. The excitement respecting the rescue of the alleged 
fugitive slave. Black I'ill. was as great if not greater than it had been 
at any time since the transaction occurred (.\ugust I'Ttli). The Vir- 
ginians^ had just left the town, having been here about ten or twelve 

1 TlTey had returned to Marion to attend the Decemher ti^rm of the 
Court of Common Pleas, (commencing December -, is:{!)). at which term 
Charles Sweelser was tried. 

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(lays, endeavoring to comi)el the rescuers of poor Bill, by threatening 
them with prosecution in the United States District Court, to pay them 
the price of their human gain — in which and other maneuvers they 
were assisted by certain mercenary and bitter anti-abolitionists, residents 
in town. As I have said, the Virginians had just left town, saying that 
their intention was to proceed to Columbus, and procure a U. S. warrant 
for the sheriff, and one of the associate judges, (Thos. J. Anderson,) and 
all who acted under them. It was asserted by all that if a lecture was 
attempted, and a riot should ensue, most undoubtedly blood would be 
shed, and probably life taken. Considering all the circumstances, and 
the unanimous advice of friends, I thought it best not to insist upon 
lecturing." 

The following" printed "handbill," dated January 27th, 1840, 
was posted in everv ptihlic place in the county: 

"ANTI-ABOLITION MEETING. 

To the People -of Marion County ; Friends and Fellozc Citizens: — 
We the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Marion, in said County, 
believing that Union constitutes the chief bond of the strength of this 
Republic, that while we remain 'United' as a people, we will stand, and 
if 'divided' we must fall, and belie\ing further that sovereign and inde- 
pendent States connected for national purposes like the United States, 
have no right to interfere with the ir.ternal relations of each other, 
and that every interference by the inhabitants of one state with 
the persons or property of individuals belonging to another is a 
violation of good faith and public justice, and that every attempt made 
by the citizens of one state to decoy away or secrete property belonging 
to persons of another state is a breach of common honesty: and whereas 
certain persons calling themselves ABOLITIONISTS, holding and pro- 
mulgating revolutionary doctrines and tenets, contrary to the welfare of 
our government, and the good order and happiness of our citizens, have 
during the past season l)y their combinations and arrangements pro- 
duced great disorder, riot, and confusion, in our formerly peaceful com- 
numity, and whereas those persons ha\'e of late held meetings, and 
delivered Abolition Lectures in this place, and are still continuing to do 
so. with the avowed intention of stirring up excitements, and propagat- 
ing their almlition principles : 

\Vc therefore ask all of you who feel an interest in the welfare of 
oin- commcn country, the safety of our sacred institutions, and the pro- 
Icctir'u of our fellow citizens in their persons and property, to assemble 
at the court-house, in Marion, at 1 o'clock P. M. on Saturday, the 8th 
of Eebniary next, to devise ways and means to arrest the progress of 
the growing evils of Abolitionism. Henry Peters,' John Bartram, Ed- 

1 Of the above anti-abolition subscribers: Henry Peters, Ebenezer 
Peters. Rodney Spnuldint;. Jrtme.s S. Reed. Tliomas Searcli, Jr., W. C. 



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ward Smith, Elliot C. Davidson, Rodney Spaulding, Peter Beerbower, W. 
F. Painter, G. H. P>nsby, A. F. Davidson, James S. Reed, Thomas 
Search, Jr.. William C. Johnson, ILbcnezer Peters, George Rowe, Cyrus 

B. Mann, Richard Wilson, W. M. Hardy, John G. Clark. Edward Y. 

(name torn). 

Marion. C)., January I'T, 1840."' 

"FREEDOM OF SPEECH. 

The following printed "handbill," dated January 30, 1840, 
signed by many of Marion's best citizens, like the other, was 
widely circulated, and posted in stores, shops, offices, and other 
places more or less public. I have both of the original "hand- 
bills" before me. They are about 20 inches square, and well 
printed on heavy paper. 

"Freedom of Speech. 

" 'Congress shall make no law aliridging tlie freedom of speech or 
of the press.' Amendment 1st of the U. S. Constitution. 'Every citizen 
has an undisputalile right to speak, write, or print, upon any subject 
as he thinks proper, being lialde for tUe abuse of that lil)erty." Consti- 
tution of Ohio, Art. 8th, Sec. (itii. 'The peofile have a right to assemble 
together in a peaceable manner to consult for their common good.' 
Constitution of Ohio, Art. 3, Sec. 19. 

The undersigned citizens of Marion, Ohio, ask their fellow citizens 
of Marion County, to assemble with them at the Com-t llimse, in Marion, 
at 1 o'clock P. M. on Saturday, the 8th day of February next. When 
thus calling upon our fellow citizens, we feel it our duty to explain the 
reasons of such call; they are these: nuicli commotion has within the 
last six months been produced in our conmiunity by the events connected 
with the trial of a black man who was claimed as a fugitive slave, and 
m;iny imjust and ill-advised imputations have been made against many 
of our fellow citizens, and against the character of our community. 

The undersigned were pleased to think that the hard feelings and 
prejudices aroused by these circumstances were passing away, and that 
neighbors were beginning to meet aufl greet each other with the cordi- 
ality of former times, but recent events liave most unhappily prostrated 
those welcome anticipations. At a meeting of the Marion Lyceum, on 
the 14th of January 1840, the following question was regularly and with- 
out opposition chosen for debate: 'Ought slavery to be inunediately 
abolished in the United States'? At the appointed time for the debate, 

Johnson, anil W. M. Hardy, were Whigs, and later Republicans, and anti- 
slavery men. Nathan J'eters. brother of Henry and Rbenezer. aided in 
the rescue of Black Bill, and signed the "handbid" headed "Freedom of 
Speech." 

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tlie nicml)ers of the Lyceum assemliled, and were surprised to find some 
of the persons wIto had aided and co-operated in bringing forward the 
(|uestion using their wdiole energies to bury the same, and tliereby deny 
tlu' right to di-cuss it. Such were the events of the evening that the 
Lyceum was forced to appoint another time to discuss the (luestion, and 
to adjourn. 

At the meeting thus appointed, the Lyceum asseml)led, but the mem- 
bers were hissed and hooted at, and had their meeting so riotously inter- 
rupted as to be compelled to call in the conservators of the peace to 
restore order, and enable them to proceed with the discussion. Order 
was however at length restored, and the question was discussed, for the 
purpose of \indicating and establishing the sacred constitutional right 
of free discussion, and with no intention of forming comliinations of 
any kind, or of interfering with the rights of any one. \Ve claim the 
right to freely speak, write, or print our sentiments on all subjects, l^eing 
responsible to the law, for the abuse of that right. Entertaining these 
\-iews, the imdersigned have beheld with regret a han(l1>ill bearing many 
respectable names, that covertly reasserts the former mijust imputations 
made against our citi;^ens. and at the same time by its doctrines and 
assumptions repudiates and denies the inestimalile and truly American 
I'ight of free discussion. 

We therefore, with all possible deference to the persons issuing the 
handbill above mentioned, call upon all the friends of free discussion, to 
come out at the appointed time, and join with us as citi/^ens of the LInited 
States, under our constitutional right, to mingle in the meeting pro- 
posed in tlieir handbill, there to assert this right, and to consult for our 
common gO(xl. We deei)ly regret the necessity that calls upon us at 
this time to make this appeal to our fellow citizens, and in doing so 
we make no imputations against the motives of the individuals who have 
signed the other handbill. January 30th, 1840. h'ber Haker, Thomas J. 
Anderson, S. S. Bennett, Joseph Durfee, Richard Patten, Thos. M. 
Sloan, Wash. W. Conklin, Benjamin Williams, William Bain, Nathan 
Peters, C. K. Watson, Z. T. Fisher, Lincoln Baker, J. J. Williams,^' 
William Fisher, A. W. Cutter, John Wildbahn, S. C. Starr, Samuel Til- 
lotson, Levi H. Randall, B. H. Williams, F. Ashbaugh, William Hutchi- 
son, .'\, Ashbaugh, G. Durfee. H. W. Baker, J. C. Godman, Charles 
Smith, John T. Sloan, Walter Williams, T. B. Fisher, Joseph Bond, John 
C. Norton, O. R. Stone, William H. Cone, W. L. Kendrick. R. King, 
Orren Patten, E. Kimball, Benjamin Sagger, John Elder, J. Clark, J. 
Beckman, T. Officer, Ansel Taylor, John Anderson.'' 

^ I cannot say whether this J. J. Williams, was Col. John J. or Judge 
Joseph J. Williams. Both were Whigs, and no doubt favored "freedom of 
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CHAPTER XVII 

IN the shadow of the great doric pillars of the protico of the 
old court house, the "Anti-Aholition Meeting, was held Feh- 
ruary 8, 1840. The following allusion to the meeting is from 
the Ohio Stafcsinaii of February 17, 1840, and was no doubt writ- 
ten by the editor, Samuel Medary. 

"Marion A nti- Abolition ]\Ieeting. 

We refer the reader to the proceedings in this issue of a 
meeting on the subject of Abolition, held in Marion. The meet- 
ing was very large and conducted in the proper spirit. If these 
[abolition] fanatics continue disturlnng the peace of society, it 
may be well to get up such meetings all over the state. It is 
time the country had come to a distinct miderstanding as to 
the lengths these men intend to go in placing the black man on 
an equal footing with the white. Will not the Whigs at their 
State Convention this week define their position?" 

It appears from "the proceedings" referred to. that the "Anti- 
Abolition Meeting" was held in front of the court-house in Alar- 
ion, February 8, 1840,^ that about 500 citizens assembled, that 
Henry Peters was chosen president, and George Gray '^ and 
Samuel Irey, vice presidents, and George Beckley and Peter 
Beerbower secretaries. Ten resolutions prepared by the follow- 
ing committee, George H. Busby, George Rowe, Enos Irey,'' 
Richard Wilson and E. C. Davidson, were imanimously adopted. 
The ninth resolution was, "Resolved, That the sheriff of this 

1 A cold time certainly the Sth of February, to hold an out of door 
meeting, but Joseph Durfee the sheriff, refused to allow the '•Anti-Aboli- 
tion Meeting" to be held in the court-room. 

-' Judge Geo. Gray, was a son of Frazer Gray, of the state of Delaware, 
soldier of the Revolution, who died in October 1844, aged 89 years; buried in 
Union Church yard, near Scotttown, in Marion county. 

2 Enos Irey and Judge Samuel Irey were sons of John Irey. a soldier 
of the Revolution, who, under Lafayette, was at the surrender of Corn- 
wallis at Yorktown. John was born in Virginia in 17.57, and died on his 
farm in Marion county. Ohio, in 1837, and was buried in the Caledonia 
cemetery. John Irey's grandson. Judge William Z. Da\-is, is now on the 
Supreme Bench of Ohio. 

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County be requested to allow no abolition lectures to be delivered 
in the court house." 

Those who stood for "freedom of speech," "free discussion," 
etc., who were probably anti-slavery men at heart, met in the 
court hotise after the Anti-Abolition meeting was over, listened 
to stirrino' speeches, and adopted resolutions they would not care 
to disown to-day. 

The following sarcastic article from the Ohio Statesman of 
March 2, 1840, refers to the delegates from Marion County, to 
one of the greatest conventions ever held in Qhio, the great 
Whig State Convention of February 22, 1840, that was held 
in Columbus, to nominate a state ticket, to ratify the nomina- 
tions (made at Harrisburg, Pa.), of Harrison and Tyler, and to 
plan the uni(|ue and wonderful presidential caiupaign that ensued. 

"NOT THROUGH YET. 

Returns from the different counties of the names of the delegates ap- 
pointed to the late Federal Blow Out, continue to pour in upon us. The 
delegation from Marion county seems to be composed exchisively of Abo- 
litionists. Read and hand to your neighbor. Marion county office holders: 
O. Bowen, president judge, charged with aiding and countenancing an Ab- 
olition riot; T. J. Anderson, associate judge, charged with like conduct and 
more; C. K. Watson, prosecuting attorney, appointed by the above named 
judges contrary to the will of the people — an abolition lecturer, etc.; 
W. W. Concklin, county auditor, abolitionist, and office hunter ; Joseph 
Durfee, sheriff, who refused to open the court house to a large anti-aboli- 
tion meeting, but furnished it soon after to an abolition lecturer; George 
D. Cross, J P., an abolitionist; James Briggs, J. P.. an abolitionist; Peter 
Doty, J. P., an abolitionist ; John Shrenk, J. P., an abolitionist. 

PROFESSIONAL MEN AND QUACKS. 

E. G. Spelman, lawyer and abolitionist, who carried a musket and 
bayonet to rescue a negro from his master; John C. Norton, doctor and 
abolitionist; Doctor T. B. Fisher, root doctor, and abolitionist; William 
Fisher, who digs and pounds roots for his brother, T. B. Fisher, and 
studies law at intervals — abolition lecturer, etc. Merchants, clerks, etc., 
all abolitionists: Thomas M. Sloan, E. Kimball, William Bain, Benj. H. 
Williams, William L. Kendrick, John C. Godman, James Williams, Rich- 
ard Patten, Benj. Williams, Sen., S. S. Bennett, Eber Baker, A. W. Cut- 
ter, Orren Patten. 

ABOLITIONISTS. 

Lincoln Baker, would lie tavern keeper if any person would stop with 
him. Gartlner Durfee, Samuel Tillotson, A. Ashbaugh, loafer; F. Ash- 

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baugh, A. McNeal, N. Story, L. H. Randall, John Ballentinc, C. Starr, 
loafer; S. Bowdish, C. Smith, newsmonger: T. Henderson. E. Thomp- 
son, H. Gorton, T. Beach, cut stick and left his surety, D. Fienbaugh, T. 
Officer, J. Page, James Brownlee, James McKinstrey, M. McKinstrey, J. 
Brownlee, W. Bradon, Morris Dudley, Isaac Sailor, Samuel Sailor. R. 
Bunker, O. Sherman, W. Williams, E. Bunker, W. G. Ballentine, A. W. 
Tallmadgc, J. B. Shaw."^ 

Tlie following- is from a letter four columns in length, i)ul)- 
lished in the Philanthropist, of Cincinnati, on Tuesday, March 
lo, 1840. It was written by the Rev. Asher Austin Davis, some- 
time before the date of publication. 

TRIUMPH OF TRUTH IN MARION. 

"In the month of August last, several Virginians set up a spurious 
claim before the Court of Common Pleas for this county, for an alleged 
fugitive slave named Bill. For want of evidence lo sustain the claim, 
the court after a patient hearing and calm investigation of the subject, 
discharged Bill. But the Virginians seized him in open court, dragged 
him t'l a liduse called a justice's oftice. and attempted there to defend 
their human property with dirks and pistols. But they were overpowered, 
and tile black man made his escape. He may now thank his God and 
bless his legs that he is a free man in tlie dominions of Victoria. Since 
the trial of Bill the cnnrt has b-cen vinlently assailed, and a memorial has 
been sent to the legislature praying for an impeachment of the president, 
(Ozias Bowen), and one of the associate judges, (Thomas J. Anderson) ; 
but the prayer of the petition has not been answered. The prosecuting 
attorney. Cooper K. Watson, in consequence of the part he took in the 
trial of Bill, and the circumstances that grew out of it, has been most 
grossly and wickedly abused, and even had his private character attacked 
in the newspapers. But he yet stands above all his enemies." 

The trial of Black Bill, the alleged fugutive slave, was fruit- 
ful of many newspaper articles and other publications, and I 
regret that I cannot embody more of them in this sketch. But it 
is already too lengthy — that part relating to this exciting episode 
— and I must now begin to curtail it. I regret that I have not 
found s])ace for the able opinion of the Court, nor for the 
whole of Hon. Cooper K. Watson's letter published in the Ohio 
State Bulletin, November 12, 1839, nor for the letter of Hon. 

^NoTE. This very personal article, evidently intended by the writer 
to be highly sarcastic and to hit the leading Whigs of Marion County 
hard, now after the lapse of more than 63 years, reads rather like a 
piece of humor, or raillery, than a bitter political roast. 

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•Ozias Bowen, published in the Oliio Stafcsiiiaii, November 20, 
1839, both of which were lengthy and able. William Fisher of 
Marion, whose character had been aspersed by Oquanoxa (Wil- 
liam Walker), wrote a short letter on the subject which ap- 
peared in the O. S. Bulletin, November 2, 1839, but it must 
also be left out. I have thought it proper to reproduce a letter 
written by Hon. Thomas W. Powell, of Delaware, Ohio, in vin- 
dication of the course pursued by Cooper K. Watson, as prose- 
ctiting- attorney. 

While almost every newspaper had something to say, and 
some of them a great deal about the slave case, the great Presi- 
dential campaign of 1840, opening soon after, tended to keep 
partisan editors and politicians, North and South, within discreet 
bounds. But this exciting slave case, in the quiet inland town 
of Marion, was the entering wedge which, less than a quarter 
of a century later, nearly rent the Union in twain, set four mil- 
lions of slaves free, and culminated in the most formidable and 
gigantic Rebellion that ever shook a Continent. The actors in 
this famous case are now all dead, but several of them are not 
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CHAPTER XVHI 

AMONG the lawyers who came to Marion to try cases in 
1839, and for some time before that year and after, was 
the notorious Charles Sweetser, of Delaware, already 
mentioned so often in this sketch as one of the attorneys of Adnah 
Van Ribber, the claimant of Black Bill. His arrival at Mann's 
tavern invarial)l\- caused somethin!:;- of a sensation, for his dappled, 
cream-colored horses were spirited and showy, his harness richly 
mounted, and the vehicle in which he sat in state, outshone the 
conveyances of even the Columbus lawyers, and left them all in 
the shade. Moreover, his style of dress was loud and flashy, and 
wearing heav\' gold eyeglasses and watch chains and an immense 
diamond shirt-stud, he strutted about like "a Kentucky Colonel," 
as gay as a peacock. 

AMiile Sweetser was lirazen, ])i)mpous, pretentious, vain and 
egotistical, be was shallow and really illiterate, but lieing slick, 
windy and energetic, he secured for a good many years a fair 
share of legal business of a certain sort in his own county, and 
])rohablv in others. He was a money-maker, but his reputation 
was never very good either as a lawyer or as a citizen. Lawyers 
and others accused him of unprofessional conduct and dis- 
honesty, ^ but he was cunning enough to avoid disbarment, and 
to stave oft' prosecutions that threatened his liberty. 

The result of the trial and the escape of the negro made 
Charles Sweetser (|uite furious, nor did his own arrest and the 
action of the grand jury tend to allay his fury. The Southerners 
were surelv in no verv pleasant frame of mind, but Sweetser 
fairlv raved. His tunndtuous passion knew no bounds. He 
threatened to do several terrible things, but finally after much 
windv talk, having spent his strength, he returned to Dela- 
ware to nurse his wrath and seek revenge. His friend William 



1 Sweetser -was in the habit of doing what no lawyer in the state of 
any standing- would ever think of doing. He often brought suits for small 
amounts, before weak justices of the peace on Sunday, against prominent 
non-residents, on trumped up accounts. As the defendants could not afford 
to remain away from home to fight the fraudulent claims, they were gen- 
erally settled on the best terms that could be obtained. 

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Walker, was induced to write the letters already noticed, color- 
ing and distorting- the facts in the case and the proceedings of 
the court, ])nt Sweetser himself for a time was silent. 

Save and except these coarse and defamatory letters which 
he no doubt inspired, little was heard of Sweetser in connec- 
tion with the affair until December 21, 1839, when Mr. xA.ndrew 
H. Patterson, member of the House of Representatives from 
Delaware county, presented to the House, a "Memorial," ad- 
dressed "To the Honorable the House of Representatives of the 
State of Ohio," signed by Charles Sw'eetser, preferring charges 
against Ozias Bowen, president judge of the second judicial cir- 
cuit of Ohio, and Thomas J. Anderson, associate judge of Marion 
county, and containing a prayer "that the conduct and proceed- 
ings of said judges in this behalf may be inquired into by this 
honorable body, and such decision made in the premises as your 
wisdom and justice may deem proper." 

The memorial ^ is far from an elegant, well-expressed paper. 
It is neither lawyer-like nor statesman-like. This singular doc- 
ument, though very lengthy, is given complete as follows: 

"MEMORIAL 

Of Charles Sweetser, preferring charges against Ozias Bowen and Thomas 

J. Anderson. 

To the Hmiorablc the Iloitsc of Rcl^rcscntatii'cs of the State of Ohio: 

The petition of Charles Sweetser, a citizen of the County of Delaware, 
in the State of Ohio, respectfully showeth : That on the 2Gth day of 
August, A. D. 1839, your petitioner visited the County of Marion, in said 
State, for the purpose of attending the regular term of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas, which commenced in said county on the 27th day of August, 
1839; that on his arrival in Marion, he saw evidences of much excitement 
prevailing upon the suhject of a trial that had that day been had before 
Ozias Bowen, the president judge of the second judicial circuit, upon the 
claim of Adnah Van Biblier, (a citizen of Kanawha county, Virginia), to 
a negro named Bill Anderson, under the law of Ohio of 1839, called "the 
Fugitive Bill;" that after the case had been fully submitted by the coun- 
sel respectively, the said judge reserved his decision in the premises until 
the next morning at 8 o'clock A. M. Your petitioner arrived in Marion 
after the trial of said cause, and stopped at the tavern where the Virginia 

1 During the past 15 years I have spent much time and more or less 
money trying to get a copy of the Sweetser Memorial, which I finally 
found in September 1902, in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Library of the 
Historical Society of that state. It is probably the only copy in existence. 

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party had taken lodgings, and soon after his arrival, R. W. McClannahan, 
the agent of the claimants, called upon your petitioner and requested an 
interview, for the purpose of availing themselves of his professional ser- 
vices, at which time and place all the facts in regard to the claim which 
had been urged before said judge, together with their fears in regard to 
the ultimate decision of said judge, were fully made known; and although 
your petitioner was an entire stranger to the Virginians, he was employed 
to aid them professionally in the recovery of their aforesaid slave, in the 
event of their inability to obtain a fair and impartial decision at the hands 
of said judge. 

Your petitioner made an examination of the laws of Ohio, as well 
as the laws of Congress, upon the subject of the right of owners of slaves 
to claim their property when found in the free States of this Union, 
and call upon the authorities of the States to aid them in carrying their 
property, when so found, to their homes. Your petitioner, upon inves- 
tigation and reflection, had no hesitation in coming to the conclusion, 
that the law of Ohio under which said claim had been sulimitted to 
said judge, conferred upon the owners of slaves the right to litigate their 
claims before said judge, and in case said judge should decide the case 
against the claimant, still a dc novo proceeding could be had under the 
law of the United States, which was not abrogated or superseded by the 
law of the State, but was paramount, and that the law of Ohio of 1839, 
did not nor could not trench upon or interfere with the remedies given 
by the laws of the United States ; that said law of Ohio conferred upon 
claimants and owners of slaves an additional or cumulative remedy, and 
in purusance to said conclusions, advised the Virginians to remain firm 
to their rights, and in case said judge should decide against them (as 
public rumor indicated), to lake possession of their negro, as they had an 
undoubted right to do, and prosecute their claim under the law of the 
United States before another and different tribunal. 

And although said judge had witnessed the commotion and excite- 
ment on the investigation, coming from birds of ill omen, collected from 
the adjoining counties, acting in concert with those that had sprung up 
spontaneously in his own precincts, and well knowing that the alarm and 
watchword had spread far and near, did not decide said cause on the day 
on which it was submitted, but gave notice that he would give his deci- 
sion on the next morning at 8 o'clock A M., in the meantime mingling 
with the crowd and suffering himself to be importuned in regard to the 
decision that he should give in the premises. And your petitioner was 
much surprised to find that said judge waited until the convening of the 
court on the 27th, and after the opening of the court, and after the lobbies, 
galleries, porticos, halls, stairs and court. room of said court house were 
filled to overflowing by an excited mass of people, and about 11 o'clock 
A. M.. of said day delivered an elaborate opinion, cited authorities, etc., 
and came to the conclusion that the negro was undoubtedly the slave 
and property of John Lewis, of Kanawha county, Virginia, (from whom 
:said Van Bibber had, duly proven, and exhibited evidence, a written bill 

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of sale, in due form of law, absolute upon its face, importing a full and 
fair consideration), yet the claim of said Van Bibber, could not be sus- 
tained, (for what reason !!) and discharged the negro. Your petitioner 
instantly gave notice to the court and all concerned, that the claimants 
would proceed to enforce their claim to said negro under the laws of the 
United States, and called on the counsel of the negro to make his de- 
fence. The Virginians took possession of the said negro and were about 
to proceed to the office of John Bartram, Esq., to assert their claim, when, 
they were set upon by a mob composed of the aforesaid individuals in the 
court room; they, however, succeeded in carrying the negro to said Bar- 
tram's office, which was located some two hundred yards from the court 
house, midst a shower of stones and brickbats. 

The judge aforesaid immediately ordered the sheriff to arrest the 
Virginians and bring them before the court, and (inasmuch as the entry 
of the order was not made upon the jottrnals of the court until a long^ 
time after the riot was ended), I can only infer what the order of said 
judge was from the mode and manner of its execution, and the feelings 
of said judge in his subsequent action in the premises. Your petitioner 
succeeded in reaching Justice Bartram's office, after the negro had been 
lodged there, and when the office was assaulted by the mob, attempted 
to address the people at the door of said office, when the sheriff of said 
county made his appearance, and demanded the persons of said Virgin- 
tons; your petitioner inquired for the authority of said sheriff to make 
the proposed arrests, and received for an answer that the president judge 
had ordered him to arrest the Virginians; Jiere his papers were demanded. 
He admitted that he had no written authority, and when he was told tliat 
he had no authority to make the proposed arrests, he was about return- 
ing to the court house, when he met Thomas J, Anderson, one of the 
associate jud.ges of said court, who assumed, (as subsequent events fully 
manifested, to be the organ of said president judge, and a fruitful source 
of power), and with said Anderson, backed by a host who came into 
possession of the puljlic arms, assaulted said Bartram's office, and suc- 
ceeded in breaking open the door, and assisted said negro to malce his 
final escape. The cry was, "Arrest the Virginians! Run. Bill, run!!"' 

Your petitioner is forced to the conclusion, in view of all the then 
surrotmding circumstances, that said president judge and Thomas J. 
Anderson, associate judge, (there being but two associate judges upon 
the bench at the time), did confederate together with the negroes and 
abolitionists, to procure the release of said negro, in manner aforesaid, 
which was accomplished under the judicial authority, and tmder the color 
of legal proceedings. 

The inquiry irresistibly forces itself here — if the object of the court 
had been to ptmish those gtiilty of a contempt, why was it that the sheriff 
and Anderson, officers of said court, construed the order of said judge, 
(which was subsequently drawn up and entered upon the journals by a 
distinguished lawyer then in attendance), to arrest all persons guilty of 
a contempt of said court, into the authority to arrest the Virginians, their 

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counsel and friends, release the negro, and entirely overlook the indi- 
viduals composing the moh, who had, in the presence of the court, in vio- 
lation of law, and withor.l regard to the lives and rights of their fellow- 
citizens of a sister state, perpetrated acts that ought to have called down 
u])(.n their heads the animadversion of the laws? But such are the facts — 
that the Virginians, to-wit : Adnah Van Bibber, R. W. McClannahan, 
Anderson, Ciosborn. Cline. Lawrence, Bowers, John Bartram, Esq., Gen. 
Rowe, wdio was the counsel ihat prosecuted the case before said judge 
and the colleague of your petitioner, together with your petitioner, were 
the only persons that were arrested under said order of said court. It 
is equally strange that as soon as .said negro was rescued that the leaders 
and active members of said mob (by some process unknown to the peti- 
tioner) became transformed into officers of said court, and made them- 
selves conspicuous in making the aforesaid arrests, and were actively en- 
gaged as prosecutors afterwards. 

It may all exist consistently with the purity of said judges, and the 
due administration of the laws, but is it probable? The aforesaid order 
seemed also to authorize said sheriff, after the aforesaid arrests, and after 
the prisoners were taken to the court room, from which the judges afore- 
said had for some cause absented themselves, to imprison the aforesaid 
individuals: and an order was given to take all to the jail, while your 
petitioner was demanding the cause of the arrests, and offering to give 
the sheriff any surety he wished for the appearance of those under arrest, 
all of which reasonable demands and requests were winked at ; and when 
the aforesaid order for the imprisonment was repeated, your pelitioner 
resisted the attempted oppression, and succeeded in keeping the Virgin- 
ians (with the exception of Mr. Van Bibl)er, wlio had been lln-usl iiUo 
prison at an early stage of the proceedings) out of jail. On the coming 
in of the court, in the afternoon, your petitioner inquired of the court 
for a copy of the order or authority under whicli the arrests aforesaid 
had been made, as well as the cause of com])laint which authorized said 
order and arrests, and received for answer, that no order had l:)een made 
in writing or any entry upon the journals of said court. The defendants 
were ordered to enter into separate recognizances in llu' sum of $(i()l) each, 
for their personal appearance, from day to day, wdiich was accordingly 
done; all of which acts and doings were dictated by said president judge, 
judge Anderson co-operating, there being but three judges u])on the bench, 
the action of said Bowen and Anderson was uncontrolled and unlimited. 

The prosecuting attorney' was directed to file specifications again.st 
the respondents, wdiich was neglected for two days, (and it is proper here 
to remark, that the prosecutor received his office at the hands of said 
court, and was the counsel for said negro on his trial before s;iid judge) 
at wdiich time a i);ii)er was filed in the shape of a cniinnau la7C informa- 
tion, "wdiich charged resi^ondents with all manner of crimes and misde- 
meanors; wdiich paper was demurred to Ijy your petitioner, ;ind the de- 

' Cooper IC Watson. 

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ninrrcr overruled by the court, therebj' assuming to have and take com- 
mon hiw jurisdiction of contempts and crimes generally; and although 
the respondents, by your petitioner, respectfully moved the court every 
day to take up and dispose of the several cases of the Virginians and 
their friends, the court refused to treat the counsel of the respondents 
or their rights with the least consideration, but permitted their tool the 
prosecutor, to insult the counsel in the presence of the court, and thus the 
rights of individuals, the majesty of the laws, and the administration of 
justice was openly profaned under fhe sanction of said judges, in the 
very temple of justice. 

On Monday succeeding, being the 7th day after the aforesaid arrests, 
and after said judges with those whose interests and feelings were iden- 
tified with them, had had an opportunity to canvass the public mind in 
regard to the matter, they called up the cases, and patiently heard the 
authorities and arguments of your petitioner, in exculpation of the re- 
spondents, as well as a volunteer speech from a lawyer whose name I 
forbear to mention, who urged, however, that the respondents had been 
guilty of a contempt by refusing to abide the decision of the judge, and 
in attempting to institute a dc iioz'o proceeding under the laws of the 
United States; and the question was directly made to the court, in justi- 
fication of the respondents, that they had a right to recapture said negro, 
and reassert their claim under the laws of the United States, and that the 
law oi Ohio conferred an additional or cumulative remedy, but did not 
supersede the laws of the United States. The converse of that proposi- 
tion was argued and the court requested to decide the case upon that 
ground — the court yielded to the suggestion — and in deciding upon the 
cases of the respondents, did assume and decide that the law of Ohio 
of 1839, called the "Fugitive Rill," superseded and abrogated the laws 
of the United States, and fined the respondents $15 each, and without any 
motion being made by respondents, remitted the same upon payment of 
costs. For 7i'Jwf reason f the indignant countenances of an honest peo- 
ple, who were present, admonished the court that their assumed authority 
had gone far enough. 

At the same term of said court, and prior to the disposition of said 
causes for contempt, said prosecutor in conjunction with an avowed abol- 
itionist,^ (who was either a student or a hanger-on about the public of- 
fices), procured witnesses to go before the grand jury, then in session, 
and indictments were found against all the Virginians and their counsel, 
(Gen. Rowe and petitioner), for an assault .and battery, and resisting 
the sheriff, in not going to jail when he gave the order. But the public 
mind had been awakened, and the said judges, prosecutor, and all their 
adherents, became convinced that they had better take the back track; 
and accordingly it was proposed from authority, that if the Virginians 
and their counsel would consent to a continuance of the indictments, 
that their individual recognizances would be taken, and at the next term. 



E. G. Spelman. 

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a nolle /^rosctiiti sliould be entered upon all the indictments, which propo- 
sition was acceded to, and recognizances entered into accordingly, and the 
Virginians with tiieir counsel conciliated in every form by the participants 
in the aforesaid drama. 

Your petitioner entertained the resaonable hope, tliat subsequent events 
would have so explained the conduct of the aforesaid judges, as to induce 
him to throw the mantle of charity over their aforesaid illegal and arbi- 
trary acts, but in this he has been disappointed. 

During the vacation between the August term aforesaid, and the De- 
cember term of said court, which commenced on the 2d December instant, 
said R. W. McClanahan, as the agent of the owners of the negro afore- 
said, visited Marion for the purpose of ascertaining all the facts pre- 
paratory to the commencement of suits in the Circuit Court of the United 
States against those individuals who had, as aforesaid, trespassed upon 
their rights, and it was publicly known that your petitioner was employed 
as their counsel ; and although your petitioner had no confidence in the 
aforesaid pledges, yet he relied on the popular voice of said Marion county, 
which had stamped the aforesaid prosecutor with their disapprobation of 
his course, and elected an individual that was unknown to the profession 
as prosecutor over him by a decided majority, he did hope that the afore- 
said judges would have directed a nolle prosequi to be entered, and in 
open court read the letter of said McClanahan, setting forth the under- 
standing and agreement aforesaid. The said president judge intimated 
that they would interfere with such arrangements, and in the calling of the 
docket the cases of the Virginians were first called, and the aforesaid 
expunged prosecutor, still the official organ of the court, gave notice that 
the cases of the Virginians would be passed, and when the case against 
your petitioner was called, it was set down for trial. Your [letitioner gave 
notice of his willingness to proceed with the trial — the court refused to 
take up the case then. 

In the afternoon of the same day, at the regular calling of the docket, 
when your petitioner had a right to demand a trial, he did so: and again 
the objection was interposed that the regular jury were out in another 
case. He proposed to waive his right to the regular jury, and submit 
to be tried by a talis jury, (which would be selected from the bystanders 
by the sheriff, who was the prosecuting witness), but was told by the 
court that the State insisted upon the regidar jury — however, the regu- 
lar jury continuing out, on the subsequent morning a talis jury were 
empanelled without any challenges, and the cause proceeded. Your 
petitioner relying upon the legal positions, supported by a host of author- 
ities : 1st. That the orders and doings of our courts of record can only 
be 'evidenced by their records, and that the order of a single judge to make 
arrests, even for contempts, could not be executed by the ministerial 
officer of the court without the precincts of the court, and that the order 
under which the arrests were pretended to have been made, was a nullity. 
inasmuch as it existed, if at all, in parol. "Jd. That a general order or war- 
rant to arrest all persons, and specifying none, is void, and consequently 

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the acuon r>f the court and its officers under the aforesaid order was 
card III nun jndicc. Th.e said judges aforesaid occupied the novel position 
of sitting as judges in their own case, backed by all the officers of the 
court, against an atturney who was charged with advising his clients that 
the aforesaid order of the court was not obligatory upon them, that they 
were not bound to oliey it, and an attorney who had the audacity to ques- 
tion lire infalliliilily of a judge under the circumstances' aforesaid. 

Your petitioner, witii his counsel, appealed directly to the jury as 
judges of the law and the facts: and in conclusion of the trial, again the 
novel proceeding was iK'itncsscd, of a judge arguing his own cause to the 
jury, and citing autlmrilies to support his positions, (it may be super- 
rttiDUs to add that all the authorities and arguments of the defendant 
were i vcrrnlcd ) . The jury retired about 7 o'clock P, M., and remained 
in their room uiuil the next day about 3 o'clock P. M., when the court 
sent a peremptory order for them to come into court, and on their ap- 
pearing in court tliey were discharged, without any motion from tliem- 
selves or from any person known to petitioner. It was, however, rumored 
that the jury were equally divided, and your petitioner is authorized to 
charge that an understrapper of the court attempted to argue the case to 
the jury after their retirement, and was .silenced by a member of the iury, 
and that said president judge was duly advised of the precise situation 
of the jury. And after the jury were discharged, the court ordered your 
petitioner to enter into a recognizance for his appearance at the next term, 
which was accordingly done: and after the jury were discharged, a 
pariiccps criininis in said drama, significantly remarked that the regular 
jury would liave UKule a different dispositifin of said case: and your peti- 
tioner feels authorized to conclude that the regular jury had been packed 
for the occasion, with the knowdedge of said judges, and hence their un- 
willingness to ha\e the case tried liy a talis jm"y. 

In conclusion, yoiu' petitioner feels aiUhorized to charge, that said 
Ozias Bowen, President Judge of the second judicial circuit of Ohio, and 
'J'homas J. Anderson, one of the associate judges of said Marion comity, 
did corruptly confederate with others, to release said negro Hill from his 
lawfu.l owners ; that they prostituted their offices, usurped authority, :uid 
trampled upon the rights of their fellow-citizens, in the accomplishment 
of their oliject. 

Your petitioner is v)repared to prove, 1)y the records and ]iai)ers filed 
in Marion court, and ])y parol testimony, the substance of all the charges 
herein made, and bt'gs leave to refer to the orders of said court, ihe 
printed opinion of said judge in the case of Adnah Van Bil)bcr z's. T'ill 
Anderson.' the informations filed, with .the answers of the respondents 
thereto, together with all the indictments, and entries made in the several 
cases arising out of said Marion riot, etc. 

' The title of the ease wa.s "Adnah Van Bil)ber. a.gain.st Mitchell, a 
colored man." 

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Wherefore, and inasmuch as the said 0/.ias Bowen and Thomas J. 
Anderson have prostituted their offices, oppressed and imprisoned your 
petitioner and his aforesaid clients, and in their persons have violated 
the most sacred and nndouhted rights of the inhabitants of these United 
States, your petitioner prays that the conduct and proceedings of said 
judges in this behalf, may be inquired into by this honorable body, and 
such decision made in the premises as your wisdom and justice may deem 
proper. And your petitioner, as in duty bound, etc. 

Charles Sweetser. 

Delaware, (O.) December 16, A. D. 1839." 



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CHAPTER XIX 

THE high-handed conduct of Sweetser, after Black Bill's dis- 
charge, was so indefensible that he should have been dis- 
barred and committed to jail. The court was far too len- 
ient. He was one of the rioters himself, and egged on the Virgin- 
ians in their efforts to thwart the judgment of the court, and kid- 
nap the negro. But he was very angry at being arrested, indicted 
and prosecuted, or pretended to be, and a few days after his 
trial ^ prepared the aforesaid memorial, which was referred to the 
Judiciary Committee of the House. 

The two judges, Bowen and Anderson, were Whigs; Sweet- 
ser was a Democrat ; Patterson, who presented the memorial, was 
a Democrat ; four of the five members of the Judiciary Com- 
mittee were Democrats ; a majority of the members of the leg- 
islature were Democrats ; the governor was a Democrat ; and 
the President of the L^nited States, from whom Mr. George 
H. Flood, one of the members of the Judiciary Committee was 
expecting a diplomatic appointment, was a Democrat. But after 
holding the memorial till the 4th day of February, 1840,- with- 
out any investigation whatever, Mr. Rufus P. Spalding, the act- 
ing chairman of the standing committee on the judiciary, made 
the following report, which was laid on the table : 

"The standing committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the 
memorial of Charles Sweetser, preferring certain charges against Ozias 
Bowen, President Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit of Ohio, and 
Thomas J. Anderson, one of the Associate Judges of the county of Marion, 
have had the same under consideration and now report : That if any portion 
of the allegations made by the memorialist against the persons implicated 
be well founded, (and there appears no reason to doubt their truth), the 
said judges have acted indiscreetly in the discharge of their official duties. 
But inasmuch as the alleged misconduct grew out of a controversy^ which 
always produces excitement in the mind of man, and was perhaps rather 
owing to a want of prudence at the time than to malice, or a premeditated 

1 Sweetser was tried early in Dec. 1839. The term began Dec. 2, 1839. 

" See Journal of the House of Representatives, 1839-40. 

* The reader will observe that nothing is said in the report about the 
cause of the "controversy," — the trial of an alleg-ed fugitive slave. Such 
cowardice is inconceivable. 

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disposition to do wrong, your committee, in the hope that the conduct 
complained of will not be repeated, recommend the adoption of the fol- 
lowing resolution : 

"Rcsolz'cd. That the committee on thejudiciary be discharged from the 
ftu'ther consideration of said memorial." 

Judge Anderson, not being satisfied with the report of the 
Judiciary Committee (though not adopted, hut laid on the 
table), wrote a long caustic letter to General James Allen, the 
editor of the Ohio State Journal, dated March 5, 1840, in which 
he denounced Sweetser as a dangerous and corrupt man, without 
any real standing in his own county, and the statements in the 
memorial as false and malicious, and moreover cttrried down 
the Judiciary Committee for its duplicity, and unfairness in re- 
fitsing to hear evidence, and for not dismissing the subject at 
once as imworthy of any consideration. Here follows the letter : 

"For the Ohio State Journal. 
General Allen : 

Dear Sir: — I was implicated as your readers will recollect by memo- 
rial to the present Legislature, at an early day of its session, in charges 
of misconduct in my office as one of the Associate Judges of Marion 
county. The document in question prayed an impeachment^ of myself, 
and the President Judge of this Circuit, and was signed 'Charles Sweet- 
ser.' It was introduced into the House, by the member from Delaware, 
Mr. Patterson, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The memorialist 
secured for it a printing at the expense of the State, and a grattiitoits (?) 
insertion in the columns of the Statesman. These objects having been 
gained, I presumed the subject would receive no further notice. 

There were such indications of malice, and apparent violations of truth, 
such a mass of unmeaning and vulgar matter thrown together in such 
illiterate and uncouth sentences that I thought no sensible person could 
for a moment give the author any credit, but that all such would treat 
the whole jargon as the effusion of an uncultivated, disordered and dis- 
honest mind, and as an insult to the body before which he offered it. 
Such, I am sure, were the impressions of nearly all who knew anything 
about the man, and the affair of which he had written. Such I under- 
stood were the opinions of most of the members of the legislature. 
Whereupon I rested patiently under the libels thus circulated respecting 
me, believing that the propagator of them would receive from all sources 
the contempt which his impudence and infamy merited. 



1 Though the word "impeachment" is not found in the memorial, the 
memorialist no doubt souglit the impeachment of the two .iudges. or wanted 
the people to believe he did. 

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Tlie Judiciary Committee of the House is composed of Geo. H. Flood, 
Rufus P. Spalding, Thomas W. Bartley, Thomas B. Henderson and 
Moses B. Corvvin. The four first arc Van Burcn men. and the latter a 
Whig. The President Judge of this circuit, and myself are Whigs. 
Sweetser, I regret to own, was also a Whig until ahout a year ago when 
he emhraced Van Burenism. The memorial rested in the hands of the 
committee until the 4th of Fehruary, when Mr. Spalding reported thereon : 
'That if any portion of the allegations made by the memorialist against 
the persons implicated be true, (and there appears no reason to doubt 
their truth), the said judges have acted indiscreetly in the discharge 
of their official duties.' The committee however concur in thinking that 
the indiscretion was not owing to malice, or a premeditated disposition to 
do wrong, and therefore ask to be discharged from the further con- 
sideration of the memorial. 

I impute no base design to the committee in the peculiar phraseology 
they have adopted in their report. They acted officially in discharging 
their duties, and perhaps aimed at impartiality. I am reluctant to 
charge tribunals appointed to investigate subjects under oath, with par- 
tiality or depravity. It is far better to believe in all such cases that 
the most enlightened views, and purest motives alone influenced their 
decision. I must be allowed in this instance however, unpleasant as 
it is. to recur to the facts, and invite for them an impartial examination 
to show whether the reprimand I have received was required at the 
hands of the Committee. '■' * * 

The Committee take the memorial as true, because the contrary 
does not appear. Did they know its author? Did they inquire of any one 
who knew his character as to the weight that should be given his state- 
ments? Were they told how often he had been indicted by grand juries 
of Delaware county, for forgery, and other crimes ? Were they told 
that the members of the legal profession, who practice in the county 
where he resides, had contemplated for some time moving the proper 
tribunal to have him suspended from practice in consequence of his 
repeated and miblushing acts of roguery in his professional intercourse 
with them and his clients? Were they informed that his reputation for 
truth and veracity had fallen so low in the neighborhood where he lives, 
and is known, that he is not believed even under oath in many state- 
ments which Itc makes? 

If they had known his true standing, they would have paused ere 
they assumed as true, anything he might say, write or swear to. If they 
had ])een still inclined lo allow something for his veracity, shattered 
as it is and lung has been by the lowest falsehoods, and petty knavery, 
would it not liave been liberal in the committee before reproving my 
official conduct, before fixing on me a stain of dishonor, to have heard 
my explanation, to have listened to the testimony of witnesses, the 
proof of unimpeachable men as to the allegations made against me? 
I inc|uired of the Committee through a friend,^ several weeks before 

' Hon. Jame.s H. Godmaii. then a resident of Marion, and a member of 
tlie legislature. IQQ 



Of Judge Thomas J. Anderson and Wile 

the report was made, wliether they would hear any witnesses on the 
subject, and learned from them that it was unnecessary to take any 
trouble alxiut it. The CcMumittee did not wish to call any witnesses. 
It deserved as they expressed it, little or no attention. 

I pronounce every charge impugning myself, or the court, contained 
in the aforesaid memorial, an unqualified falsehood, and if I had been 
allowed by the Committee to introdtice proof. I would have so convinced 
them. I would have shown in the clearest light, that the troubles ex- 
perienced here at the last August term of our Court, resulted from the 
ofiicious interference, the professional ignorance, and the reckdess and 
most unwarrantal)le coin^sc pursued by said Charles Sweetser. I would 
ha\'e satisfied any mind th;it the doings of the Court were upright in all 
respects, unless characterized by too nuich liberality and kindness to- 
wards Sweetser, and those he had involved in difficulties. 

I complain therefore :U lieing upl)raided by the Committee e\'en with 
'indiscretion.' without a hearing. 1 deny now, as I ever have, even 
the slighest 'indiscretion,' or 'imi)rudence.' relative to the affair of the 
:27th of August. The coimnittee. it is true, dispose of the subject by the 
use of mild language. Still I am condemned unheard, undefended! I 
had no ol.jjection that the su])ject should be dismissed generally, that the 
memorial, and its author, should Ijoth be kicked under the tal)le where the 
committee have seen proper to place them, without any e.x]iense, or 
trouble of investigation, which I knew would ]jlace me, in my connection 
with the affair, above the suspicion of blame; but I do protest against an 
i'.r parte legislative reprimand, made in the hope of correcting my future 
morals! ! I caimot enter my protest on the journal which contains the 
report, but ask its publication in yciur paper. The memorial and report 
go forth in the shape of jnililic documents. They are calculated to make 
an undue impression against me. If the former dei)ended alone upon 
its frail and rotten-hearted signer for credit. I would suffer it to pass 
bv like the silly revilings of his well-chosen, well-matchetl associate and 
champion, the accomplished and valiant knight of the fence corner, 
yclept 'Oquanoxa.' 

I much regret the necessity of making this communication; I would 
.gladly a\'oid troubling your or any other paper with matters of this 
■descrii)tion, but my sense oi duty forbids my silence. The mildest cen- 
sure from a legislative committee, founded on the accusations of a 
confirmed scoundrel, is more than I can tamely liear, I am disappointed, 
and sincerely lament that the committee deemed it proper to upbraid my 
course as 'indiscreet,' upon the foid and slanderous charges of Sweetser, 
"unsupijorted as they were liy any proof, and without affording me an 
'Opportunity of exposing their falsehood, antl of un\eiling by testimony 
■.the moral deformity of their author. 

ThOM.AS J. AX'DERSON. 

JMarioji, Ohio, March 5, 184U." 



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Judge Anderson, who was not in the liabit of either speal<- 
ing" or writing in this strain, was no doubt greatly surprised 
and angered on reading the report (though shelved — laid. 
on the table )', and at once decided to unmask the memorialist, 
and expose the duplicity of his political friends on the com- 
mittee. In this mood, and temper of mind, he used language 
the severity of which now seems quite extraordinary. But at 
that day, in this State, a spade was called a spade, and char- 
acters like Sweetser were handled without g^loves. Still even 
tlien, proprietors of partisan newspapers observed some of the 
canons of caution, if we are to judge from the answer of the 
publisher of the Journal, hereto subjoined : 

"Columbus, Ohio March 23, 1840. 
Hon. T. J. Anderson. 

Dear Sir : — Your communication was not rec'd. until Saturday,^ toO' 
late for that day's paper. The Legislature were to adjourn on Monday 
mornuig, and as I presume your object was mainly to get it before the 
members, you will see that it could not be done. For this reason, and 
for the additional one that it contains matter extremely libelous, reciting 
facts about which I can know nothing, I feel unwilling to incur the 
penalty which I am sure such a man as you describe Sweetser. would 
inflict. 1 am always ready and anxious to give to our friends the benefit 
of my colunms. for attack or defence. But in this case, considering the 
character of the Legislature, and the interest against you, would the- 
game be worth the candle? Would not the publication of your com- 
munication do more hurt than good even to yourself? 

Very respectfully yours, etc., 

C. Scott, 
Pub. O. S. J." 



^ It must be borne in mind that messages traveled slowly in ante-rail- 
way, ante-telegraph days, and that stage-coaches carried the mails over 
mud -roads that were usually almost impassable early in March. 



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CHAPTER XX 

UNQUESTIONABLY the communication, however true, 
was "hbelous," but that was not the only or principal 
reason it was returned to the writer. Above all things, 
the Whig- party, as a party, no less than the Democrat, wanted to 
discountenance aboliti(.nism, a sentiment that seemed to be gain- 
ing ground, and to steer clear of every incident or issue related 
to, or affected by it, and thus avoid the dangerous irritations, 
likely to spring from an intemperate discussion of any phase of 
domestic slavery, already an ominous, overshadowing cloud ! It 
was well known at Columbus, that the attempt to enslave the 
alleged fugitive at Marion, had created intense feeling, and more 
excitement in Marion county than any previous event ; and the 
shrewd i)oliticians at the capitol, including the publisher of the 
Journal, had no desire to see it spread over the wdiole state. Hence 
Mr. Charles Scott, of the Journal, decided not to publish Judge 
Anderson's letter; and the Judiciary Committee^ having the 
Sweetser memorial in hand, or the Clerk of the House, probably 
decided to suppress it, or it was suppressed by common consent, 
for there is no conclusive proof that it was ever published l)y 
authority. - 

Its proper place is in the appendix to the journal of the 
House for the years 1839-40, but it is not there, nor have I 
been able to find it in the archives of the State House, or else- 
where. It was no doul)t published at the request of its author 
in the JJ\\^lcly Ohio Sfatcsniaii, about the time it was laid be- 
fore the House of Representatives, but as the files of the Weekly 
Statesman of that period are missing, I cannot reproduce it.^ 
The members of the Legislature, Whig and Democrat, were 
probably equally anxious to suppress it, to drop the subject, 
and to forget it entirely. Neither the Journal nor the States- 

1 Their report, it should be remembered, is silent as to the cause of 
the trouble in Marion. 

= Judge Thos. J. Anderson says: "The memorialist secured for it a 
printing at the expense of the State." He assumed this I infer, because 
it was customary, but I find no evidence of it. 

3 The foregoing was written before I secured a copy of the memorial, 
which was not till Sept. 1902. 

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man had much to say about slavery. Both, presumablv, were 
pro-slavery papers at that time, but fearful of injuring the 
prospects of their respective candidates, carefully refrained, as. 
a rule, the Joiinuil especially, from any allusion to the subject. 
It was at all times and under all circumstances a delicate and 
difficult question. Northern politicians treated it gingerlv. Hence 
m Ohio, (at that day and before), stump speakers either let it 
severely alone or approached it with awe, from a Southern stand- 
]')oint, as one of the holy sacraments of the Constitution. 

Aly opinion therefore is, (recurring- to my father's commun- 
ication) that (leneral Allen, the editor, and Charles Scott, the 
publisher of the Journal, were not so much afraid of a prose- 
cution for libel, as they were of the story of the"runaway nig- 
ger." This in all likelihood they feared might again come to 
the front, reappear in all its entirety, its enormity, not onlv in 
Marion county, but in every other county in the State, and in 
the nation, and possibly evoke such an outburst in the North, 
and such a frenzy in the South, as to imperil the chances of 
Harrison and Tyler. They no doul)t shrank from the conse- 
((uerfccs of a recital of all the facts and circumstances attend- 
ing the arrest, the imprisonment, the trial, the illegal seizure 
in court after the acquittal, and the final escape of the Virginia 
negro, and then and there, as prudent ]iartisan journalists, de- 
cided that it should not be said that injudicious or indiscreet 
publications in their ])aper,i j^^^^j precipitated a further dis- 
cussion of the riotous proceedings in Marion, wherel)y the suc- 
cess of the Whig party at the October and November elections, 
might be endangered.- A majority of the members of the leg- 
islature, as already stated, were Democrats, the governor of the 
State, Wilson Shannon, and the President of the United States, 
Martin \^an liuren, were Democrats, and the Whigs wanted to 
"turn the rascals out." 

1 Party organs in Columbus were more intere.sted in party success in 
the State, sixty year.s ago than now, for they fought to secure the public 
printing, wliich they considered a legitimate subsidy, and part of the spoils 
of war. 

- A few may think that I give undue prominence to the slave case in 
Marion, but some of tlie bloodiest wars mentioned in history, have resulted 
from acts less calculated to arouse and inflame the public mind. Besides 
as a great historic event it will continue to grow in importance. 

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The letter of my father was not offered to any other pub- 
lisher, ncMie of the ])er]3lexing- Southern questions arose that later 
disturl)e(l the peace of the country, the most enthusiastic, huli- 
crous and o-rotesque political Ccim])aig-n that was ever waged 
ensued, and, as everyljody knows, "Tom Corwin the wagoner- 
boy," on the crest of the wave rode triumphantly into the guber- 
natorial chair, and Harrison and Tyler at the helm, on the same 
wdielming- tidal-wave, swept the C(nmtry, and liecame President 
and \'ice President by majorities that astonished their supporters. 

Harrison's ancestral history, and ]5ioneer life, his career as 
a soldier under Wayne against the Indians of the Northwest 
Territorv, his great prominence in our last war with Great Brit- 
ain, together with picturesque campaign songs, and rallying cries 
that appealed to the people, and "the log cabin and hard cider" 
processions, were the basis of the boundless, irresistible enthu- 
siasm A\-hich captivated the country. 

In this unique campaign, the Whigs were also successful in 
carrying the legislature by a handsome majority, and as soon 
as mv father's term of ofhce had expired, which was early in 
the session (1841), he was again elected for* a term of seven 
years, showing that his action, official and otherwise, in the 
slave case, had not impaired his standing in his party. And when 
he had sat upon the liench fourteen years he was, as heretofore 
stated, re-elected by the legislature for a third term. 

A brief sketch of the ])ersonages mentioned in these pages, 
connected in (Mie fonu or another with the aforesaid judicial 
or legislative ])r()ceedings, may interest the reader. 

Judge Powen. at the expiration of his judicial term, was re- 
elected by the legislature in February, 1845, for another term 
of seven vears. At the end of his second term he resumed the 
practice of his profession, secured a lucrative clientage, also 
engaged in banking, and became wealthy and prominent. Pi 
Jime. 1856, he \\'as nominated by the Republican party and elected 
supreme judge of the State,^ and his course in the celebrated 

1 After Bowen's nomination for Supreme Judge, he was appointed lay 
Gov. S. P. Chase to fill a vacancy on tlie Supreme Bench occasioned by 
tlie resignation of Jua^e C C. Converse of Zanesville. Bowen In the fall 
of ISfiO was made a Presidential elector, and cast his vote for Abraham 
Lincoln. This able lawyer and Incorruptible judg-e, was born at Augusta, 
N. Y.. July 21. 1805, and died at his home in Marion. Sept. 2G. 1S71. 

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slave case was probably what secured his nomination, it havin,8f 
been referred to in eloquent language by Mr. L. J. Critchfield, of 
Delaware, (later of Columbus), who presented Bowen's name 
to the State Convention. 

The attorneys, Watson and Godman, rose high in their pro- 
fession. Watson was sent to Congress, was elected judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas several times, and was on the bench 
when he died. He was a great lawyer. General Godman was 
a member of lioth branches of the State legislature, distinguished 
himself in the Civil War, came within a few votes in 1862 of 
an election to Congress, and was Auditor State (of Ohio) for 
eight }ears. He held other high positions, was many years a 
prominent memljcr of tlie Ohio bar, and was highly esteemed 
by all who knew him. He died October 4th, 1891, in the city 
of Columbus, and was buried in Marion, (leneral George Rowe 
became a major-general of the Ohio militia, emigrated to Cali- 
fornia during the gold excitement of 1848, and acquired riches, 
and more or less distinction in his profession. 

Hon. Everett Messenger, E. G. Spelman, Nathan Peters, and 
Ale:^ander Sprung" were successful in their several vocations, 
and lived to be quite old — honored and respected by their 
neighbors. Messenger, who resided in Big Island township, was 
was a member of the Ohio legislature, 1864-5, was the owner of 
a large stock-farm, and probably bought and sold more cattle 
than any Ohio man of his day. Joseph Durfee — an honest, 
capable man — died soon after retiring from the office of sherifif. 

Charles Sweetser secured a fair practice, amassed wealth, 
sat in Congress one or two terms, Init never succeeded in con- 
vincing the profession that he was either an able lawyer or 
an upright man. John Bartram ^ — the Marion justice of the 

1 Judge John Bartram was born near Redding or Reading, Conn., 
June 12. 1S04, and died in Marion, Nov. 17, 1879. He commenced practicing 
law in 1S47. His wife. Jane Hopkins, a refined lady, was born on the 
Pickaway Plains, "5 miles below Circleville," O., Aug. 8, 1808. She be- 
longed to a branch of the family of Stephen Hopkins, "the signer;" but 
her parents emigrated from Sussex Co., Delaware, to Ohio. She died in 
Marion, Sept. 19, 1888. Their only child, Samuel H, Bartram, was born in 
Marion, Dec. 22, 1828. He graduated from the Law Department of Cin- 
cinnati College, in 1850, and was admitted to practice the same year. He 
was elected prosecuting attorney of Marion Co.. in 1852, and once held the 
office a short time by appointment. He made his mark, and as a member 
of the legal firm of J. & S. H. Bartram. has taken part in the trial of many 

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])facc' before whom Black Liill was dragged by the X'irginia slave- 
liunters, their hiwyers and friends, after he was set at liberty by 
the L'onrt of C^^mnion Pleas — was elected the following winter 
{ 1840) for one term of seven years, associate judge of Marion 
county. The legislature was Democratic, and John Rartram 
was then a pro-slavery Democrat. After retiring from the bench 
— where he sat with ability and dignity — Judge. Bertram opened 
a law office, got a fair share of business, and was known as a 
safe counselor and good lawyer. During the Civil War he w'as a 
Union man. and finally joined the Republican party, and was 
sent to the Legislature — first to the House, and then to the 
Senate. He lived to be an old man, and left a handsome property 
and a good name. 

The members of the Judiciary Committee of the House, in 
the winter of 1839-40, rose to eminence. Spalding, famous as 
an advocate, was elevated to the Supreme Bench, was a mem- 
ber of Congress, and late in life joined the Republican party. 
Thomas W. Bartley was acting governor of the state (in 1844), 
for a few months, and later was many years one of the judges of 
the Ohio Supreme Court. His father, Mordecai Bartley, elected 
as a Whig, succeeded him (in 1845) as governor of Ohio. Moses 
B. Corwin was sent to Congress. George H. Flood^ was ap- 
pointed by President v"an Buren, U. S. Charge d' Afifaires to 
the Republic of Texas. Thomas B. Henderson, the fifth mem- 
ber, was long a politician of some note and influence. 

Gustavus Swan, of Columbus, an occasional practitioner at 
the Marion bar, who was present when the negro was discharged, 
v/as very indignant at the outrageous conduct of the rioters, and 



important cases. A few years ago he was prominent as a stump speaker, 
and as a lecturer. He is a man of means, lives in fine style, and all the 
members of his interesting family are highly esteemed. Mr. Bartram is 
still — 1903 — a man of noble appearance, and fully expects to live to be a 
centenarian. He inherits both Roundhead and Cavalier blood. 

1 "Department of State. Washington, Aug. 28, 1902. 
Hon. James H. Anilrrsoit. 

Sir — In response to your letter of the 25th instant, I have the honor to 
inform you that George H. Flood, of Ohio, was appointed Chargg d'Affaires 
of the United States to Texas, March 16. 1840; was recalled April 10. 1841. 
and left Texas July 21, 1841. I have the honor to be. 

Your obedient servant, 

Alvey a. Adee, 

Acting Secretary." 

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in order to bring tlicni lo justice aided Watson to prepare the 
necessary motions for contempt, "the specifications," and the 
indictments. Long- before Swan's death he stood high as a 
lawyer, judge, and financier, and left a large estate to his two 
daugliters, Mrs. George M. Parsons, of Columbus, and Mrs. 
Whiting of New York. 

Judge Thomas W. Powell, after a long life of distinguished 
usefulness, died at his home in Delaware, in his eighty-seventh 
year. He was tlie father of Hon. T. E. Powell, the eminent 
lawyer of Columbus, ( )hii!. 

William Walker, with the rest of the Wyandot Indians, left 
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, July 12, 1843, ^o^ the new Wyandot 
Reservation beyond the Missouri, and settled near the mouth 
of the Kansas river. About 1852 or 1853, before the estab- 
lishment of a territorial government, he was for a short time 
provisional governor of Nebraska Territory, (which embraced the 
present boundaries of Kansas and Nebraska,) and after that he 
was called governor.^ He died at Kansas City, in February, 
1874, being then seventy-four years old. He was bright, intelli- 
gent, sarcastic, dissipated : as a writer, caustic, witty, reckless, 
and often unreliable. 

1 "State of Kansas, Governor's Office, 

TOPEKA, May 4, 1889. 
J. H. Andcraon, Esq.. Voluiiihiis. Ohio. 

My Dear Sir: On receipt of yours of the 29th ultimo, I requested 
Hon. P\ G. Adams, Secretary of our State Historical Society, to investigate 
and reply. The result of his inquiries is embodied in a brief letter of which 
the following is a copy: 

'Kansas Historical Society. Topbka, Kans., May 2, 1889. 
Hon. Ij. V. Humphrey, Governor of Kunsus. 

Dear Sir: In reply to the inquiry made by J. H. Anderson, of Colum- 
bus, Ohio, respecting William Walker of Wyandotte, and the claim that he 
was at one time governor of Kansas, ii appears that Mr. Walker was given 
tlie title growing out of the holding of a convention at Wyandotte, about 
the year 1852 or 1853, for the object of forming a provisional government 
as a step towards the establishment of a territorial government, in the 
Indian Territory, by Congress. The convention was participated in by some 
people from Fort Leavenworth, officers and others, and by some members of 
the Wyandot trioe who were in favor of becoming citizens of the proposed 
new territory. William Walker, then a chief of the Wyandot tribe, was 
chosen provisional governor, as a result of this movement, and George I.- 
Clark, secretary. I know no other reason why the title of governor attached 
to Mr. Walker. Very respectfully, 

F. G. Adams, Secretary.' 
Yours very truly, 

Lyman U. Humphrey, 
J]^4 Governor of Kansas." 




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Of Judge Thomas J. Anderson and Wife 

Andrew tl. I'atterson lost his property by fire, thenceforth 
•drank liard, and died in poverty and distress. He was a kind- 
hearted sociable man, or herculean physical strength. His last 
days were spent in Marion, where he became a warm friend of 
Judge Anderson, whose generous assistance he often received. 

As no trace was kept, I am unable to say what became of the 
men from the South. They were not engaged surely in a very 

laudable undertaking when they came to Marion to take and 
carry away by fair means or foul, honest Black Bill. But the 
stand])uint from which they viewed such conduct was different 
from ours, and they may have had a good reputation at home. 
Robert W. McClanahan is said to have been a lawyer of some 
standing, and the ultra-prd-slavery party in Marion liked them all. 

The hero of the aiifair, to whom Black Bill really owed his 
freedom, was Judge Thomas J. Anderson. While he was a 
Whig, and acted with the Whig party, he was at heart an aboli- 
tionist, and the negro from the time of his arrest had his 
sympathy. The decision by which he was discharged from cus- 
tody was in part due to Judge Anderson, and his escape from 
the office of the justice of the peace, while in the hands of his 
merciless enemies, was wholly due to the judge's prompt, coura- 
geous action. 

After this famous episode of old slavery days, the judge 
"continued in pul)Iic life many years. Before the expiration of 
his third judicial term, our present State constitution had been 
adopted, which changed our judiciary system. He was then 
well advanced in years, but was not allowed to enjoy "the post 
of honor," — "private station." When the old venerated Whig 
party was dissolved in 1854-5 he gave the new, vigorous Re- 
publican party, his cordial, enthusiastic support and influence. 

It was after leaving the bench that he held — as already 
stated — the office of district assessor ^ (to appraise the property 

1 Auditor's Office. Marion Co., O., April 12, 1853. 
TJon. T. J. Anderson, 

Sir: You are hereby appointed District Assessor, in the Second Dis- 
trict, composed of Marion, Big- Island, and Grand Prairie townships. Marion 
•county, in the place of C. A. Darlington, resigned. You are requested to 
give bond, and enter upon the duties of said office within ten days. 

Henry Hain, Auditor. Marion Co. 

A. Sharp, Trcafitrcr, Marion Co. 

J. H. Barker, Recorder, Marion Co. 

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in Marion, llig Island, and Grand Prairie townsbips) , the office 
of justice of the peace, of master commissioner, of commissioner 
of insolvent debtors, of United States Deputy Collector of In- 
ternal Reve-:u(' for Marion coimt\-, and other offices. He was 
a clear-headed, plain-spoken man, whose simple words and short 
sentences were easily understood. He was direct and positive, 
knew no roundabout ways, was unfamiliar with circumlocution, 
but was ever ready to learn and to alter his views if found 
wrong. 

He did all in his power to uphold the general government 
during the late Rebellion ; no man in our country was more 
active and efficient according to his strength and means. He 
encotu-aged enlistments, sought to provide for the soldiers' widows 
and orphans, and for the sick and wounded. His country's cause 
and the stirring events of the war thoroughly aroused him, ab- 
sorljing his thoughts and his time, as all well knew who were 
near him, or .who read his earnest letters written during that 
intensely exciting period. He was the father of eight children r 
AsphcHa Henrietta, l)orn December 14, 1826; Virgil Dunlevy, 
born April 11, 1829; Orrel Eliza, born December 26, 1830; 
James House, born March 16, 1833 ; John Summerfield, born 
February 20, 1835; Clay Webster, born August 24, 1837; Annie 
Elizabeth, born March 4, 1840; and Mary Hannah, born De- 
cember 7, 1 84 1. All except James House, now of Columbus, 
Ohio — a sketch of whose life may be found in a number of 
historical works — died many years ago. Nor has he any grand- 
children living (1903), except the two sons and daughter of 
James H.^ 

Toward the close of Thomas J. Anderson's life he sufifered 
more than ever. His old wounds, his eyes, and finally his 
stomach were sources of trouble and pain. He continued to 

1 James H. Anderson was married to Miss Princess A. Miller, Novem- 
ber 27, 1856. She was born August 4, 1837. They have three children liv- 
ing: Mary Princess, who was married October 30, 1888, to Prof. Edward 
Orton, Jr., of the Ohio State University: Lieut. James Thomas Anderson, 
U. S. A., born March 26, 1832, in Hamburg, Germany, where his father 
was U. S. Consul; married May 26, 1898, Miss Helen Bagley, daughter of 
Gov. John J. Bagley, of Mich. Their only child, Helen, was born June 6, 
1899. Charles Finley Anderson, born March 2.3, 1864, in Hamburg, Germany, 
was married to Miss Minerva A. Flowers, of Paducah, Ky., June 20, 1893. 
They have two children: Mary Princess, born July 3, 1899, and Dorothy 
Burton, born June 8, 1902. 

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Of Judge Thomas J. Anderson and Wile 

reside at the old homestead in Alarion for four or five niont'ns 
after his wife's death, whieh oecurred on the 17th day of May. 
1870, when he aeconipanied his danohter Annie and grand- 
daughter Cora Spaukhng, to the west. The death of his wife, 
whom he loved with a perfect love, nearly broke his heart, and 
it was thought that the western journey might cause him to 
forget to some extent his sorrows, and possibly give him l)ack 
his health. He paid visits to relatives' in Indiana, Illinois, Mis- 
souri and Kansas, transacted business of more or less importance 
in the city of Paola. Kansas, and then retraced his steps till he 
came to I'leasant Hill, Mo., where he sojourned for two or 
three months. 

At this place his afflictions and sorrows culminated in a 
fatal disaster. He had decided to return to Marion, and had 
notified his son of his intention, when he received a paralytic 
stroke of great severity. This visitation was on the morning of 
the •24th of January, 1871, at about 8 o'clock. He was then 
sitting bv the tire and quite alone, but was very soon attended 
bv relatives and friends. When first seen he could talk, and 
was able to describe the attack, and tell how he felt, but in a 
little while he could scarcely articulate, and finally became nearly 
speechless and seemed to suffer intensely. Whether it was 
physical suffering, or anguish of the heart because of his in- 
ability to communicate with his beloved daughter and grand- 
daughter who wept at his bedside, no one could say. There 
they remained, these poor children, watching and waiting, try- 
ing to decipher his anxious looks and broken syllables, bowed 
down by sorrow and grief, in torturing suspense, anticipating all 
his wants, till the hour of dissolution came. Death came to his 
relief on the following day, January 25, 1871, at 11 o'clock 
p. M., thirty nine hours or more after he was stricken. Thus 
died a good and in some respects a great man, for he was always 
and everywhere courageotis in the right, fearless in the path of 
duty, only fearing the displeasure of God. He was a public- 
spirited citizen, a brave patriot, a generous husband, a loving 
father, and an upright man. 

The body of the deceased was brought to Marion, where after 
solemn Masonic and religious obsequies, it was deposited in the 
Marion cemeterv. The eloquent funeral sermon in the M. E. 

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church was by the able pastor, the Rev. L. A. Belt, an old 
friend of the family. The Masonic and religious rites and 
services, witnessed by a great multitude, were very impressive. 
In the beautiful Marion cemetery, on a site selected by him- 
self, beside his wife and seven children, lies all that is mortal 
of this true-hearted man, this representative American citizen, 
who was never ashamed of his country or his creed, and wha 
never sailed under false colors. 

The considerate kindness and unwearied attention shown my 
father in his last sickness, by his church and Masonic brethren, 
and their neighljors, can never be forgotten by me. A stranger 
in a strange land, yet no well-known citizen of Missouri, of the 
highest character and standing, could have received better or 
more respectful treatment. Such disinterestedness and gener- 
osity in this country, can probably only be found in the South, 
where hospitality in its broadest sense has ever been cultivated 
and observed as a virtue, and one of the crowning humanities 
and ornaments of civilization. 



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CHAPTER XXI 

HAVING finished the memoirs of Judge Thomas J. Ander- 
son, the reader wiU now probably be interested in the 
brief sketch of his wife, Mrs. Nancy Dunlevy Anderson, 
which follows ; 

Her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Barton Dunlevy. a widow, 
came to America from Tyrone county, Ireland, about 1771, and 
settled with ber cbildrcn near Brownsville, Fayette county. Pa. 
She was tbe widow of Andrew Dunlevy, son of James, son 
of John, son of Francis, son of Anthony, who was living, and 
quite old, in Sligo, Ireland, in 1652. She was the mother of 
nine children — eight sons and one daughter — seven of whom 
accompanied her to this country, namely: John, Anthony, An- 
drew, Morris, Daniel, James and Nancy. Mrs. Mary Barton 
Dunlevy was born in 1730. was a memlier of tbe Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and died August 18, 1827, at tbe home of 
lier son Daniel, in St. James parish. Cross Creek township, Jefifer- 
son county, Ohio. Andrew, her husband, died in county Tyrone, 
sometime before she left Ireland. 

James Dunlevy, tbe father of Nancy Dunlevy Anderson, was 
born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1770, came to America with 
bis widowed mother as before stated, lived for years in Fayette 
county. Pa., was educated at Dr. John McMillan's Classical 
School, and its successor, Canonsburg Academy, (which after- 
wards became the famous Washington and Jefferson College,) 
and was united in marriage in 1796 to Miss Hannab Rabb, 
born July t, 1780, a daughter of Captain Andrew Rabb, of 
Fayette county, Pa., a man of wealth and influence, and a Rev- 
olutionary soldier who recruited a company of mounted Rangers 
at his own expense, which rendered gallant service during several 
years of tbe War for Independence. 

David McKinley, grcat-grandfatber of tbe late President of 
the United States, William McKinley, in bis application for a 
pension says, that a part of his Revolutionarv service was in 
Captain .Andrew Rabb's company. Captain Ral)b, wbose will 
disposing of bis great estate is of record in Fayette couutv. Pa., 

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was married to his first wife, Mary Scott, mother of Hannah 
Rabb Dunlevy, September i, 1768, to his second wife, Cath- 
arine Pentecost, February 27, 1800, and died September 5, 1804, 
at Hot Springs, Bath county, Va., where he was undergoing 
treatment for poison administered by a slave. 

James and Hannah Rabb Dunlevy (the parents of Nancy 
Dunlevy Anderson), removed from Fayette county. Pa., in 1797, 
to Jefferson county, Ohio. Here James Dunlevy bought a farm 
about three miles from Steubenville, soon became prosperous and 
quite prominent, was elected sheriff of the county for two years 
from October 9, 1804, and after more than two years service 
retired from office in December, 1806, and died (it is believed) 
on the (lay preceding "Cold Friday," that is on February 5. 
1807, leaving a handsome property to his four infant children. 
He was a faithful member of the Episcopal Church. His will, 
and the wills of his brothers Daniel and Morris, and of his 
father-in-law Captain Rabb, will be found in "The History ot 
the Dunlevy Family," by Miss G. D. Kelley, of Columbus, Ohio. 

James Dunlevy had fair hair and complexion, was tall and 
strafght, dignified, and fine looking. His only son John died 
very young, soon after his father's death. His daughter Mary, 
married Edwin S. Tarr, a lawyer, who first settled in Galves- 
ton, Texas, and later in Clay county. 111. Here, on her farm, 
on the Ingraham Prairie, Mary Dunlevy Tarr — a bright, cul- 
tured woman — died childless, August 29, 1858. Her amiable, 
intelligent sister Julia Dunlevy. ])orn December 25, 1800, mar- 
ried John Plotner, a native of \"irginia, an upright man of ability 
aiul indnstn-, and late in life (in Octol:;er, 1851), left Ohio, and 
removed to the Ingraham Prairie, near tlie home of her sister 
Mary and passed awav April 28, 1863, leaving several chil- 
dren. Her husband died Sept 15, 1855. (See History of the 
Dunlevy Family for the Plotner Famil}\) 

Tlie third daughter and youngest child of James and Hannah 
Rubli Dunlevy, was Nancy Dunlevy, l:)orn on her father's farm 
near Steubenville, January 12, 1805. Her mother, and the exec- 
utors named in her father's will : Daniel Dunlevy, Thomas Elliot, 
and Jiihn Milligan ]:)rovi(le(l her with an education in the schools 
of Steubenville, that was lietter than the average young lady 
then obtained. Her mother (Hannah Rabb Dunlevy), the latter 

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part of the year 1808 l)ecanie the wife of Thomas Johnson, of 
Jefferson county, Ohio, liy whom she had five chiUh^en. (See 
Dtinlevy Family History.) 

Hannah Rabb (Dunlevy) Johnson (bed in 1817, when her 
daughter Nancy Dunlevy was only twelve years old. Thence- 
forth the three Dunlevy girls resided on their father's farm 
(which was their farm), till Julia was married. A part of their 
time was spent on the large 640 acre farm of their uncle Daniel 
Dunlevy, one of the executors of their father's estate. 

About 1824 Nancy Dunlevy, then nineteen years old, was 
invited to visit Mrs. Judge Sherman, mother of Hon. John 
Sherman, at Lancaster. Ohio, near wliich place, namely, on the 
Pickawa\- Plains, she owned a large tract of rich lanrl, inherited 
from her father. While in this locality, Nancy Dunlevy be- 
came acquainted with Thomas Jeft'erson Anderson, whose, 
father owned a farm near l)y. They were soon much interested 
in each other, and were finally joined in wedlock August 7, 
1825, l)y the Rev. James Gilruth. They settled in Marion, Ohio. 
the same year. Mrs. Nancv Dimlevy Anderson, one of the most 
gifted and highly respected women that ever lived in Marion 
county, died (as before stated) May 17, 1870. She ever re- 
mained a close intimate friend of Mrs. Sherman, and they visited 
■one another in Mansfield and Marion. 

The onlv living child of Judge Thomas Jefferson and Nancy 
Dunlevy Anderson, is James House Anderson, attorney at law 
of Columlnis. Ohio. He was united in marriage to Miss Prin- 
cess .A. Miller, November 2", 1856. Their children now (1903) 
living are Airs. Mary I^rincess Orton, wife of Professor Edward 
Orton, Jr., of the Ohio State University; Lieut. James Thomas 
Anderson, LL S. A.; and Charles Finley Anderson. 

For a more complete account of the Dunlevys in ancient and 
modern times, as kings and princes of Ldster (Ulidia), and as 
-citizens of the Ignited States, the reader is referred to Miss 
Kelley's History of the Dunlevy Family. 

DL'NLEVY COAT-OF-ARMS. 

Dunlevv or Donlcvy : A. D. 1600. Ar. three cinquefoils 
j^-ueules, within a double tressure, tiory-countcr-fiory vert. 

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Two of my mother's uncles, sons of Captain Andrew Rabb, 
went south after the death of their father, which occurred (as 
l)efore stated) September 5, 1804. Her uncle, John Rabb, bought 
a cotton plantation near Natchez, and another fifty miles above 
Natchez, on lake St. Joseph, in Louisiana. He was one of the 
earliest planters in that part of Louisiana. He was also inter- 
ested in New Orleans, and resided in that city a part of the 
time. His brothers-in-law, Joseph and Lewis Newman, owned 
cotton plantations in the neighborhood of his estates in Mis- 
sissippi and Louisiana. My mother's uncle, William Rabb, set- 
tled on a large plantation (of his own) on the Red river in 
Texas, and was massacred by the Comanche Lidians. All his 
familv v>ere put to death at the same time. 

Although James' Dunlevy, my mother's father, died at an 
early age (thirty-six), he was quite successful in amassing prop- 
erty. My mother's inheritance as heretofore stated was probably 
$2,000 in money, and in addition, landed property in Jefferson 
and Pike counties, and on the Pickaway Plains. Her step- 
father, Thomas Johnson, by injudicious investments had lost her 
mother's large inheritance. So when my parents settled in Mar- 
ion (in 1825) they were in good circumstances for that primi- 
tive time. 

My mother had the education that a farmer's daughter 
could get, and which the schools of Steubenville at that early day 
in its history afforded, which was nothing to boast of. But she 
was a lover of books, and read with enthusiastic eagerness. She 
took journals and magazines, and was ever a buyer of books — 
a discriminating book buver I may say. The best articles in the 
magazines, and the books that pleased her most she read an'i re- 
read. She likev/ise loved to write (not for the press however), 
and her gifted female correspondents and later her children kept 
her in practice. 

She was a woman of taste, a lover of music, and a passionate 
lover of flowers. Our house on Center street, which is still 
standing, when built (in 1844) was thought large and quite im- 
posing. The first story is stone and the walls very thick ; the 
second story brick. My mother planned the lower story, for 
she wanted a secure place for the delicate plants and shrubs with 
whicli the winter months always found it well filled. 

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1 can see her still, hovering over the pots and tnl)s con- 
taining "the ]:)huUs'" as they \\'ere caUed, watering and othei- 
wise looking to their healthfnl growth. It was a pastime, a 
recreation, a lahor of love. In spring and snnimer, from time 
to time she snpplied the premises — an acre and an eighth — 
with other flowering plants and shrubs, and also trees — fruit 
and ornamental. Here, in the early morning and in the cool 
of the evening she delighted to wander, inhaling the fragrance 
and watching the tm folding and development of her lovely ideals. 

Her love of music was strikingly shown while her grand- 
daughter, Cora Spaulding (a child of musical talent), was pur- 
stiing her studies. She became al)sorbed in the science and in 
the art. The harmonies of sound suggested sentiments and 
ideals that awakened rare emotions, lender the glow of divine 
music, fancy free she sat in rapture. 

As the reader 'knows, my father was ever hospitable. His 
guests embraced all classes of respectable people. Hence bright, 
accomplished persons, young and old, of the countv and of ad- 
joining counties, whose conversation my mother enjoyed, were 
often at his house. Her society was sought, for she was known 
(as lias already been intimated) as an agreeable, well-informed 
person, whose conversation was always entertaining. Like the 
children of the pioneers generally, her early opportunities, as 
the reader is aware, were limited : she was therefore essentially 
a self-made woman. Her skill in w'hatever direction was mainly 
due to her natitral abilities, and to her own persistent efiforts. 

Besides reading, and writing, and entertaining guests, and 
discharging social and religious duties and o1)ligations, she did 
a great deal of practical household work, for she loved her 
home and was a genuine housekeeper. Taking an active interest 
in society, she was fond of giving and attending parties. 

She took an interest in all public questions that excited and 
divided the people, and her views reflected her intelligence and 
good sense. And before age and infirmities made it irksome, 
traveling gave her real pleasure, and she recurred to her only 
journey to the Falls of Niagara by railroad and steamboat, with 
never ceasing delight. A storm on the lake, generallv a terrify- 
ing spectacle, inspired rapt contemplation, and visions almost 
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was ever present. She admired the grandeur of the great cata- 
ract, and whatever was lofty in sentiment or style m literature. 

She was, however, over and above all, a true wife, mother 
and Christian. While she was no doubt excitable, she was too 
discreet or too proud, to show ill-temper. She always treated 
my father with kindness, deference and respect, and was the 
gentle, confiding friend and companion of her children. She 
tried by words and example to instill into their youthful minds 
true ideas of industry, veracity and honor. And as I have stated 
in the sketch of my father, there were no liickerings or jarring 
words in our family. No single hasty or unkind word that I 
can recall ever passed between my parents. 

My mother vv^as a woman of many sorrows. She lost her 
parents in childhood, and her children all preceded her to the 
tomli except two. Her grief at the loss of her loved ones was 
])itial)le, and affecting to behold. Her last hours w'ere neither 
painless nor her suiTering extreme. She lingered more than a 
month, comforted and sustained by the kind willing hands, soft 
gentle voices, and tender, loving words of my father, sister 
and niece, and others near and dear. And when the shadows 
of death began to darken that home, silent and in tears these 
sornnving ones hovered about the beloved sufferer. In her 
dying moments they stood at her side. It was a touching death- 
l)ed scene. She told them not to weep, that she was prepared, 
and only a little in advance of them on the journey, that she 
would soon see Orrel, and Clay, and her other loved ones, and 
receive a jf)yful welcome in the Heavenly home, where she said, 
"I will await your coming." Then she took each by the hand, 
when suddenly her eyes l^ecame brighter than ever before, ex- 
pressing a world of tenderness and love, while her countenance 
beamed with a marvelous radiance, strangely affecting all present. 
Following this sui)reme moment came a deathly pallor, when her 
■eyes lost their unwonted expression and her soul was released. 

Having finished the memoirs, the letters follow: 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, February 28, 1861. 

Dear Son : — Well, how are yon and what are yonr prospects,, 
and how are yon enjoying yonrself at the seat of government 
of the great American nation ? Yesterday Princie told me that 
she thought from the tone of your letters yon were passing the 
time pleasantly, but she feared you were not free from danger. 
While I fear that yon or your father may not come home alive, 
and though intensely excited, I do not intimate my fears to 
any one. Be prudent. Don't expose yonrself to danger except 
in defense of the conntr3^ 

In the effort you are making, which is certainly laudable, I 
hope you may succeed, but if not, submit with grace and forti- 
tude, and consider that it is probably for your good, perchance 
to save you from a watery grave ; not that it is so important 
where we lay our bodies down if we have secured an interest 
in Christ. "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" 
All the wealtb of the Indies, nor all the gold of Ophir can redeem 
a soul. 

I am not so ill as when yon went away, but not yet quite 
well, though gaining strength. Have taken short walks for three 
successive days and feel benefited. 

Princie ^ will not visit her relatives in Clark and Cham- 
paign counties, for she thinks the weather too cold and the roads 
too muddy to travel by private conveyance. She wants to visit 
her brother, and I advised her to do so, as the short trip on the 
railroad would be pleasant. 

Since yon left, Princie has had a gloomy time in that big 
house, almost alone night and day. Give yonr father my love. 

Yonr affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MR. AND MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April 22d, 1861. 

Dear Children : — I feel sad, O very sad this morning. 
You are gone, and we know not what awaits you. I trust in 

1 Mrs. James H. Anderson. 

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'God for your protection. May }'0u also trust Him, casting 
your whole care upon Him, for He careth for you. Fear God, 
keep his commandments, and everything shall work together for 
your good. Be very kind to each other, forhearing in all things. 
No other course can insure happiness. Remember you are alone 
in the world, no other in touch caring whether you are happy 
or miserable. This should bind you the closer together. You 
will find in your care for each other's happiness you increase 

your own. * * * Dear little M , how I wish I could 

see her. Here lies her doll — little "Judy." Tell her grandma will 
take care of it. 

They are still ])eating up for troops. Mr. James H. God- 
man's company is not yet full. O I wish you had been here at 
church yesterday. Such an hour I never passed. William D. God- 
man i)reached, touching on our troul)les, then held "general class." 
We felt that we were hearing some speak for the last time. Just 
think, sixteen of the young men of our church among the vol- 
unteers ! I wish }ou could have heard them — such high-souled, 
patriotic, ennobling sentiments : sentiments I never heard ut- 
tered. There w-as not, I think, a dry eye in the house. All 
seemed to feel it to be a religious duty to defend our country. 
Amlirose Mouser, son of Isaac Mouser, a very intelligent young 
man who has been at the University three years and expected 
to remain two more, rose and said it had been his greatest ambi- 
tion to get an education, but that he could and would give up 
his college course to serve his country. William D. now arose, 
and said he honored the student that quit his studies to serve his 
country, and that he would not have lost that "hour in class for a 
fortune in gold." But I have no language to give you any idea 
of the meeting. 

Annie ^ was working on the flags all day Saturday and is 
■still at work. The young ladies make and present them to the 
companies. I will write every day whilst you are in New York. 
Get all the information while in New York from Bromberg - 
that you can, but be sure to be careful of him. After your 
arrival in Germany, Josephine ^ expects a letter from Princie. 

Your afifectionate mother. 

1 Annie E. Anderson. 

= Once U. S. "Vice Consul at Hamburg. 
^ Mrs. Josephine Tj. Tirrill, nee Tillotson. 

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TllOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Wednesday, April 24, 1861. 

Dear James: — We are all well. Yesterday was one of the 
greatest days ever seen in Marion. Most patriotic; not a jar 
nor party feeling seen or experienced. Every man. woman, and 
child is for the Constitution and the Union. James H. Godman 
and Albert H. Brown each got up a volunteer company of 100 
men, and were chosen as captains of their respective companies. 
Our ladies made two beautiful hags bearing 34 stars, and at i 
o'clock the two companies appeared in front of the M. E. Church, 
and in the presence of thousands of patriotic citizens the flags 
were i)resented to the two captains. Patriotic speeches were 
made by several well-known citizens, and Messrs. Godman and 
Brown responded for and on behalf of their companies. An 
excellent supper — the best probably the town has ever seen — 
was furnished the volunteers at the City Hall and all enjoyed 
the occasion. 

The boys were to leave at 3 p. m. today for Columbus, but 
a sbort time before that hour Godman and Brown received a 
dispatch to remain here and await orders. You can imagine 
wbat a damper it cast, as all were excited and anxious to 
march in defense of our blood-bought country. This morning 
all is quiet. Our citizens have subscribed $10,000 for the sup- 
port of the families of the volunteers. We have not yet heard 
from you. Let us know^ when you embark and on what steamer. 
All send love. Your father. T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, May 25, 1861. 

Dear Son : — We received your letters from Liverpool, and 
were very glad to hear from you and of your safe arrival. 
* * * Here we have no partisan politics, as nearly all are 
for the Union, though there are a few who are not strictly 
lo\al. Our government is becoming very strong, and the seces- 
sion movement must soon fall. 

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Yeslerda}' our army took possession of Arlington Heights, 
and Alexandria, \'a. After the secessionists had generally fled 
from Alexandria, a miserable rebel who lay concealed, shot Col. 
Ellsworth dead. The wretch who did the deed was a tavern; 
keeper in Alexandria named Jackson, who was himself instantly 
killed oy one of Ellsworth's mcn.^ Ellsworth, yon know, was 
the colonel of the noted New York regiment of Fire Zouaves, 
and was a good and brave officer whose death is much la- 
mented. Jackson killed Ellsworth for taking down a Secession 
flag from the roof of his hotel — the Marshall House. 

There has been some fighting in St. Louis, in which our 
troops were victorious. General Harney has command there. 
Erank P. Blair,- who is a perfect lion, has command of a regi- 
ment in Missouri. 

The vote on Secession took place in Virginia on the 23d, 
Western Virginia is all right by a large majority. We have not 
yet heard from the rest of the State, but it will be all wrong 
east of Elarper's Eerry. 

Jefi^. Davis has estalilished his seat of government at Rich- 
mond, which gives great dissatisfaction to the party favoring; 
Montgomery. We now have complete possession of Maryland, 
and our troops pass through Baltimore at pleasure. There are, 
however, a great many sly Rebels in Baltimore. Our army is 
invading Virginia at different points, from Eairfax Court House 
to Norfolk, etc. President Lincoln and cabinet, and General Win- 
field wScott are very firm. You know that Congress meets on 
the 4th of July. It will be a short session but a very determined 
one. 

I gave Mr. 'I1iom?s W. Prosser your message. He said he 
would write yon soon. This he told nie yesterday. Peyton 
Hord says he is going to write you. Our cashier, Mr. J. J. 
Hane, was married after you left home to a Miss Montgomery 
of Mt. Gilead; and Mr. Adam Ault, to Elizabeth, the oldest 

daughter of Charles Miinzenberg. And was terribly 

horse-whipped by a fellow named , which some think 

'^ "Jackson had no sooner carried out his threat, when he fell to the 
ground pierced through a vital part with a ball from the musket of 
Sergeant J. E. Brownell of Col. Ellsworth's command." 

~ Blair belonged to a very prominent femily, and was many years a 
distinguished member of Congress. 

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did him good; hut it is hard to tell, he is so * * * But as 

the V s may r ,. it is hoped that * * * 

may yet change his cour^^e. Last Sunday George Barnett, a 
brother of Jack, died of dclirmm tremens. Mrs. Eliza Dicker- 
son just handed me a line to Princess which is herewith enclosed. 

Mr. Charles B. Smith, "Iron Charlie," has not yet been 
appointed postmaster, and we cannot understand it. The Presi- 
dent is now making but few appointments, except where he finds 
disunionists in office. Several removals in consequence of dis- 
loyalty have lately been made from the Navy, Treasury and 
War Departments. There are still suspicious persons in the 
service, and plenty of them in and about Washington. Let the 
Hamburg authorities know distinctly that we have a government 
that will be sustained, and that it will be respected too, at 
home and abroad. I know that you will stand by our govern- 
ment firmly and immovably. 

The services of 25,000 soldiers are now tendered the gov- 
ernment, and if needed one million volunteers can be obtained 
with ease. The government has no scarcity of money for war 
purposes. The soldiers in the field are in good spirits, and seem 
to be anxious to get into a fight just to show the Rebels that 
northern men are not cowards in any worthy cause. May the 
Lord bless von all. Your father. T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, May 25, 1861. 

My DEAR Son : — How glad I was to hear of your safe ar- 
rival beyond the big water, but was very sorry that you suffered 
so from seasickness. I hope the rest of your journey [from 
TJvcrrool to Haiilnirg] was more pleasant. We received your 
letters of the 9th ard nth inst., both in the same mail. They 
were thirteen days in reaching us. 

We Iwve no news except war news. Your father is now^ 
pt ihe office \\riting, and I presume will tell you all that we 
Inow. Cur government is now keeping all its plans secret until 
cxcruted, lest the enemy pr-^fit by the knowledge. Mr. J. H. 

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Godman has been promoted, and Mr. Edwin B. Olmstead elected 
captain in his stead. The companies from here were first ordered 
to Camp Jackson in Cohimbus, then to Camp Dennison, near 
Cincinnati, where, armed and equipped, they are now drilling, 
ready at any moment to be called into active service. Eugene 
and Charley Tillotson have both volunteered. i The govern- 
jiient has now called for troops for three and five years, and 
will accept none for less. Mr. Godman and Mr. Olmstead have 
both been sworn in for five years. 

I sometimes think you have made a fortunate escape from 
the excitement and turmoil incident to our civil war ; still I am 
reminded that your post is one of great responsibility, requiring 
diligence and constant vigilance in the performance of your 
duties. You no doubt informed the Department of State of your 
departure from the country, but I saw no notice of it although 
I did of several others. I feel sure that you will neglect none 
of your official duties. 

You are now at the right age to improve, and I think you 
will do so. Study the language and laws of the country to 
which you are accredited, as well as International law, and 
every other subject that may tend to inform your mind and 
qualify you for the efficient discharge of your duties. I want 
to see you reach up and write your name high, and yet higher 
on the scroll of fame. You can if you will. You have the 
power. Your country has called you to an important charge. 
If faithful she will call you again and again, higher and higher.^ 
Pursue whatever may tend to your advancement in literature, 
jurisprudence, diplomacy, etc. 

Dear Princess : I have not seen any of the folks about town 
since getting your letter ; otherwise they would have sent a load 
of kind or complimentary messages. I want you to write often. 
Kiss little Mary for me. Tell her grandma wants to see her 
so bad. Cora wants to see her too : I never knew a child to feel 
worse than Cora when you all went away. Her grief was quite 
pitiful. 

1 Nephews of Mrs. Thomas J. Anderson. 

- Thi.s praise and encouragement is perhaps excusable in a mother. 

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Trusting that the Ahnighty will care for you while abroad 
and grant you a safe return, I remain, 

Your affectionate mother. 



(From the Marion Republican of May 31, 18G1.) 
JAMES n. ANDERSON TO THOMAS J. ANDERSON. 

Steamship Glasgow, May 9. 1861. 

Dear Father : — We sailed out of New York harbor on the 
27th ult. at 12 o'clock M. The sea was calm. By night we 
were for the most part in that happy state known as seasick- 
ness. I vomited profusely. Retired at 10 o'clock, and rose in 
the morning still seasick, though the exhilarating occupation 
of puking was not indulged in. However, up to this hour since 
my embarkation, I have been squeamish. Princess has also 
been seasick the principal part of the time. I have not eaten 
as much since my sojourn on shipboard as in two meals on 
land, but will regain my appetite I suppose soon after landing. 
My situation I assure you is not very delectable nor to be envied. 

"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious sum- 
mer." To-day a glorious sun smiles upon us and land is in 
view. Our hopes beat high and every soul is jubilant. At the 
first sight, every one shouted "land !" Columbus on his first 
voyage could scarcely have been more rejoiced at the sight of 
land. The Irish coast is in view. At 9 o'clock this morning 
we had our first glimpse of it. At 5 o'clock this evening we 
will be at Oueenstown, near Cork. On the sod made sacred 
by the labors and sacrifices of St. Patrick, the patron saint of 
Ireland, I will pluck you a shamrock, so dear to every true Irish 
heart, and enclose it. 

We have now been out at sea twelve days, and will not 
reach Liverpool till tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock. Our voy- 
age has been tedious, though not attended with any great dangers. 
With the exception of two days the voyage has been what sea- 
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rely solely on steam as headwinds have prevailed almost con- 
stantly, rendering sails useless. Two days we encountered what 
I considered extremely rough weather. The billows rolled 
"mountain high." One of great weight and power swept over 
the deck, completely soaking every one exposed to its fury. With 
little Mary in my arms, I got thoroughly saturated with salt water. 
She cried at first because the drenching waves that beat upon us 
seemed to prolong their stay for a period of time quite un- 
reasonable. Then when the shock was over, and the people who 
had been knocked down had recovered, she laughed heartily. 

It has rained more than half the time since we came on 
board. The track of the sea which we have followed, measures 
from New York to Liverpool 3,100 miles, and has been this 
voyage very monotonous. We saw one school of whales. The 
first officer said he had never seen so many together at one 
time. He estimated the number at fifty. The pictures you 
see of them are quite correct. They spout water fifty feet high. 
We saw them off the banks of Newfoundland, and although it 
was a chilly, disagreeable day, all the passengers crowded the 
deck to see them. No sharks or seahogs have been seen, though 
seagulls and Mother Carey's Chickens are everywhere seen. 
Every day but yesterday, sails have been frequently seen. • To- 
day we have seen a dozen or more. Whenever a ship is in sight 
the cry is on every lip, "Ho ! a sail !" There are several dis- 
tinguished men aboard * * * and several prominent mer- 
chants of the Atlantic cities with their families. 

Liverpool, England. May 11, 1861. 

Dear Father : — We safely arrived at this place last night 
at 10 o'clock. It is now after 10 o'clock a. m., and we start 
for London in about an hour. So you see I have but little time 
in which to write. This will go out to you by the Persia. I am 
somewhat recovered from the effects of my sea voyage. I ate 
the best breakfast this morning that I have for many a dav. I 
took mutton chops, having heard much of the superiority of 
English mutton, and I assure you it cannot be spoken of too 
highly. Say this to my friend Prosser for me. 

We had charming sailing from Oueenstown, Ireland, to this 
citv, for St. George's Channel, and the Irish sea, were perfectly 

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smooth, and we had a fine view of the Irish and Welsh coasts. 
The latter is very rngged and appears barren. I am sorry that 
my great hurry compels me to leave so soon, as I wished to 
visit the world-renowned docks of Liverpool. There are not a 
great many attractions here, although it is a city of 600,000 
inhabitants. I have not time to say more. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 22, 1861. 

Dear Son : — We have received your letters from London 
and Hamburg, also the London and Hamburg newspapers sent 
us. We were much pleased to learn from Princess that you 
were so pleasantly and comfortably situated. 

Since the blockade of the Southern ports we have done but 
little fighting. Our Marion troops that went for three months, 
have mostly enlisted for three years or during the war. God- 
man, Durfee, Olmstead and Brown, officers of the 4th Ohio, 
and John Beatty, lieutenant colonel of the 3d Ohio, have gone 
for the entire period. Lorin Andrews, formerly president of 
Kenyon College, is colonel of the 4th Ohio.^ 

Dumble wants you to write him a good letter for publica- 
tion in his paper. The is as near a secession sheet 

as it can well be without coming right out, flat-footed, in favor 
of disunion. The editor of such a paper should not live in a 
free and enlightened country. All he cares for is to keep up the 
party of wliich his paper is the organ. 

Tennessee has declared for secession, but United States Sena- 
tor Andrew Johnson is down on it in strong language. On 
his way to Washington he stopped at Cincinnati, and yesterday 
made a powerful Lhiion speech in that city. Congress meets on 
the 4th of July. 

1 Col. Andrews was born in Ashland county, O., April 1, 1819. Died in 
Gambler, O.. September 18, 1861, from exposure incident to camp life while 
on duty in West Virginia. A great career was cut short in the death of 
this patriot and scholar. 

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Bob Schenck' has been made a brigadier geneial. He had 
an engagement a few days ago with the Rebels at a place called 
Vienna, in Virginia, 15 miles from Washington, was surprised, 
and 8 men were killed, and 7 or 8 wounded of the ist Ohio reg- 
iment. The papers say and the people think that Schenck did 
not show any military skill. Yet he was in the midst of it him- 
self. It is feared that there is too much favoritism shown in the 
appomtment of men to high positions in the army, of incom- 
petent men through whose ignorance the lives of our soldiers 
are sacrificed. 

I am sorry to say that Gov. William Dennison is now a 
very unpopular man. He is accused of appointing incompe- 
tent men who are his particular friends to offices in the army, 
and it is the general belief that he and his friends are making 
a great deal of money out of the State in all the army con- 
tracts. How true these charges are is hard to say, but they are 
sufficient to render the governor very unpopular. If you take 
the Cincinnati Commercial you can read a good deal on the 
subject. I have always respected the governor, and should be 
slow to believe any statement affecting his integrity. 

Mr. Atwood, the New York banker, who entertained you 
and your family so handsomely, has again failed. All drafts 
drawn on his bank are protested for non-payment, but fortunately 
the Marion banks had very little money in his hands. The of- 
ficers of our banks say -that each bank had only about $100 in 
Atwood's New York bank." ^ Many failures are now taking 
place in our large eastern cities, but our Ohio banks are pretty 
sound, and the standing of western merchants is fairly good. 

John E. Kraner, Dr. E. F. Gross, W. P. Duml)le and Charles 
Miinzenberg, were much pleased with the papers you sent them 
from London, and Hamlmrg, and send their best respects. 

It is now hard to make collections. Farmers are looking to 
their wool to raise money, but there appears to be little demand for 

1 Robert C. Schenck, born in Warren county, O., October 4, 1809, a very 
able lawyer, eloquent speaker, and brave soldier, was many years in 
public life. — in the legislature, in Congress, and in Brazil, and Great Britain 
as U. S. Minister. He died in 1890. He was a Major General of Volun- 
teers and "a soldier of great zeal and gallantry." 

- This was a white lie or prevarication. Bankers never wish to in- 
jure their credit. 

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it. Wool is now selling- at from i8 to 25 cents per pound, corn 
is worth 2S cents per Ijushel, wheat 90 cents to $1.00. potatoes 15 
to 20 cents, hams 7^ cents per pound, eggs 5 cents per dozen, 
butter and beef 6 cents per jMJund, dressed hogs $3.00 to $3.50 
pe,- cwt. . Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 22, 1861. 

Dear James: — T^anguage fails to describe my satisfaction on 
reading of vour safe arrival and pleasant situation. Your let- 
ter is very good but after all I wished you had said more. Thus 
we become exacting as our privileges are increased. This is 
a propertv of the human mind. 

Here we have, as you are aware, exciting times, hourly ex- 
pecting to hear of bloodshed. Skirmishes and slight conflicts 
have already taken place. Billy Gurley has enlisted and his 
mother feels badly. 

We no longer have a Southern market for our surplus pro- 
duce, and as a consequence everything is very low. 

T received a letter from Mrs. R. N. Taylor last week. She 
says all are well, aiul invites me to visit her, which I should be 
happy to do. The frost destroyed the most of our fruit, l)Ut we 
have a few cherries, and they are now ripe. How do you like 
the fruit and vegetables of Germany? Is fruit abundant? 
What are vour weekly expenses at your summer home, includ- 
ing board, lodging, washing, etc., for yourself, Princie, Mary 
and governess? Cora 1 sends a kiss to Mary, and says, "tell 
her that Judy- is now in the country visiting at Cousin 
Frank's, and that her papa must buy her another Judy." Love 

to Princie ^ and Mary.- 

Your affectionate mother. 



1 Cora Spaulding-, a little grand-daughter of the writer. 

^A doll. 

3 Princes.-^!, the wife, and Mary, the daughter of James H. Anderson. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 4th, 1861. 

My DEAR Son : — Although this is our great National Holi- 
day I see no flaming announcements of its celehration. It is 
thought better to spend all we have to spare in the suppression 
of the Rebellion. The Home Guards are marching around town 
to the music of drum and fife, and a few of our town and coun- 
try people have gone down to the Fair Grounds to have what 
they are pleased to style "a celebration." 

David S. Miller was here day before yesterday. He came 
to transact a little business with your father and Mr. David Pettit 
for Mr. R. N. Taylor. 

I never knew the country healthier. Fortunate for our troops ; 
and the weather is so cool and favorable withal. We have had 
no warm weather yet, that is no very warm weather. In the 
house we need a fire, Ijut outside it is pleasant. T am now some- 
what chilled, here in mv sitting room. 

T am ])lease(l with yom- letters, and especially with your de- 
scri])tion of your pleasant situation — your suburban home. 
Annie read Princie's last letter to several of our most cultured 
lady friends, every one of whom complimented it highly. We 
don't read your letters to any one as you do not wish it. I 
wish you to write a letter that you are willing to have pub- 
lished. The people are anxious to hear from you. Mrs. Judge 
Bennett and Mrs. Dr. Fisher were present when Princie's let- 
ter was read. They wanted to know why we didn't have your 
letters published. Mr. Frank Reed, they said, thinks you a fine 
letter writer, and was much pleased with letters written to him 
at St. Augustine, Fla. 

July 5th. As cool this morning as early May. We have a 
splendid comet appearing now in our heavens. It made its first 
appearance the first inst., in northwest, and had not been an- 
nounced by any astronomer. The superstitious here say it pre- 
sages war and other dread calamities. Old John Kraner says 
"it is a sign of war." Pity it didn't appear sooner. The sign 
is behind the times. 

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Dr. and ATrs. True, and Miss Nonie Reed, start on an ex- 
tensive tour next week. They contemplate visiting Montreal, 
and Quebec, and our eastern cities.^ 

My Son : I wish to say something on the theme most im- 
portant to you and me. I want you to give your heart to God. 
Would you so spend your earthly life of toil and trouble as to 
throw away an eternity of happiness? "I counsel thee," says 
Christ, "to buy of me, gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest 
be rich." The price of this gold, this incalculable and imperish- 
able wealth is the heart, the whole heart. Christ asks no more, 
and will accept no less. The world and Christ demand the same 
price — the heart. The one for decaying and transitory pos- 
sessions, every one of which must pass from your grasp in the 
moment of death ; the other for the true riches which at death 
vou will go to enjoy in everlasting habitations. Possibly this 
is not a pleasant subject, but I cannot refrain, no not if 
you should promise to acquit me at the bar of God. Princie 
have faith in God. Let not your faith fail you. You may be 
compelled to endure many sore trials while in waiting for the 
■summons. You may be called away before the loved ones of 
your own household, but you will not lie forsaken. Stay your 
soul on the covenants of God. "He will not forsake thee 
* * * nor forget the covenant of thy fathers." And now, 

1 Dr. Henry A. True, A. M., M. D., born in Maine, August 10, 1812, 
sraduated from Bowdoin College in 18''2, came to Marlon in June 1839, 
practiced medicine for years, and later became a banker. He was a 
zealous member cf the Presbyterian Church, and a man of culture and 
liigh character. He died in Marion December 12, 1878, leaving a handsome 
■fortune. His -wife. Elizabeth P. Reed, a lady of rare beauty and refine- 
ment, -was born in Deerfield. Mass., January 7. 1821. and died -while visit- 
ing at Tier native place September 26, 1881. Henry True, the only child 
'Of Dr. Henry A. and Klizabeth True, was born January 26, 1848. in Marion, 
■on the lot (No. 20), on which he now resides. He is an educated business 
man and banker, has been very successful, and as a progressive citizen 
takes a high. rank. He was united in marriage September 13. 1876. to Miss 
Flora P. Bowen, born October 19, 18.51, the charming and accomplished 
•daughter of the late Judge Ozias Bowen. They are both earnest Presby- 
terians. Their premising son and only child Henry Ayer True, born July 
'26. 1879, graduated from Princeton Un-versity in June 1902, receiving the 
degree of A. B. 

The sur\-iving members of the class of 1832 of Bowdoin College., (of 
which Dr. Henry A. True was one), held a pleasant reunion in 1876. at 
Philadelphia, during fhe Centennial Exposition, and exchanged messa.ges 
T\'hich are .sti.ll preserved. 

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my dear children, I bid you adieu. May the God of all grace 
be with you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOM.VS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion^ Ohio, July 6, 1861. 

Dear Son : — Our Marion soldiers are now in Virginia, south 
of Grafton, and are all or nearly all in the 4th Ohio. John Beatty 
is lieutenant colonel of the 3d. You will now know where to 
find your Marion friends, and whether they took part in the 
engagements that are looked for, and which will of course be 
duly described in the papers. You will please let me know 
what American papers you take, that I may know the sources 
of your information. 

Congress sat yesterday, and organized by electing Mr. Grow ^ 
of Pennsylvania, Speaker, and Mr. Etheridge - of Tennessee, 
Clerk. The President's message appeared in this morning's 
papers. Init I have not yet read it. You will find it in the New 
York Tribune. I will mail this letter at noon today, but it 
will not probably leave New York till the 13th, the day a Ham- 
burg steamer sets out for your port. I do not want to send 
my letters by way of the Department of State to have them 
franked. I prefer to pay the postage. If you enjoyed the 
franking privilege it would be different, and I should like it, 
but you do not, and we must put up with it. 

I called on Mr. Christ. P)rady for the amount of your ac- 
count for professional services, and he said he would pay it 
when you came home ! Money matters are very tight. I never 
heard more complaints on that score. Everything the farmer 
has to sell brings a low price, that is low to what be has been 
used to 

I shall have to get rails made on vour Marseilles timber 
land, as they cannot be got short of that, to renew the fences 

^ Hon. Galusha A. Grow, many years a distinguished member of Con- 
gress, and a member now — 1902. 

- Emerson Etlieridge. ex-member of Congress and true Union man. 

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on the Deal L^arni. * * * If you should write a letter now 
and then for inildiealion \-our friends would like it. Postage 
from here via Haml)urg str. lo cents. The postage we paid 
on letters you sent from England was 24 cents. 

Your Father. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 22, 1861. 

Dear Princte: — Your very kind letter of the 28th ult. was- 
duly received. I was very glad to hear from you. * * * I 
had high hopes that the voyage and change of climate would 
improve if not entirely restore your health. But alas for human 
expectations ! Liable at any time to disappoint us. But I shall 
still hope even against hope that you will finally be benefited 

by the change. I hope M keeps well. Tell her that "Judy" 

went to the country visiting, and I don't know whether properly 

dressed or not. Cora wants M to gather her some flower 

seeds, and send to her in a letter. She wants seeds of small, 
pretty German flowers. 

You say the climate of Hamburg is much cooler than this 
in summer. The latitude is much higher ; but it has been very 
cool here all summer. I wish I could spend the season with 
you at your pleasant summer hotel. From your description it 
nmst be delightful. 

Princie, don't study too hard. You have ample time to mas- 
ter the German. I wish you lo take lessons in painting, for 
T think you would excel in that art. But I need not tell you 
wdiat to do, for }ou will do more than you ought I fear. Mr. 
R. N. Taylor was here last Thursday. He and Mrs. Taylor 
will pass through here in a few days on their way to Colum- 
bus to visit his father, Mr. David Taylor. 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Anderson lost their little child a 
few davs ago under painful circumstances, it having been- 
drowned in a tub in which there was only three inches of water. 
Sarah ^ thought it had not been out of the house five minutes 

1 Mrs. Sarah Geiger Anderson. The name of the child was Martha; 
it was born November 13. 1859, and was drowned July 11, 1861. 

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when she called to it, but as it neither came nor answered she 
went out and found the poor little thing lying on its face and 
knees in the tub. She lifted it up, and then almost beside her- 
self, screamed till the whole neighborhood was aroused. Frank's 
father ^ who happened to be close by, rushed in, and finding 
the child still quite warm, did all he could to resuscitate it, but 
the vital spark had fled. 

Dear James : — We have exciting times in America, and the 
excitement nearly makes me sick. I am sometimes almost glad 
that you are not here to be excited and worried night and day by 
war news. We have just received a telegram which states that 
we have had three thousand killed in a battle at Manassas Junc- 
tion, in Virginia. The Rebels had some strong batteries which 
our troops took by storm, but how dreadful the loss. Our 
armies have hitherto been victorious in every battle, and this is 
the first time we have sustained a loss of more than twenty 
killed and forty wounded. 

We have not sent you the , for the reason that its 

editor is disloyal, and its editorials treasonable. As it is meanly 
-engaged in aiding and abetting the rebellion, we thought you 
would feel like trampling the perfidious thing under your feet. 
'-'" * =*' It is said we have a cabal in our midst called The 
Knights of the Golden Circle, whose midnight meetings are 
for disloyal purposes. It is further said that they denounce 
Judge Bartram, John Hood, and others who are true to the gov- 
ernment. It is thought that there will be a split in the 

party before long. 

is still flying about town looking more like a beer 



barrel than anything else, expecting by saloon influence to go 
to the legislature. 

July 23d — Tuesday. Do not get homesick for you have 
made a happy exit out of the excitement, turmoil, and heart- 
aches of America. The news last night from our army was very 
depressing, and it is useless to detail it.- You will get it all, 

' John Anderson. 

- The V>attle of Bull Run. The Union army lost 460 killed, 1,124 
wounded, and 1,312 captured or missing: total 2,896. The enemy's losses 
were: :'B~ killed. 1,582 wounded, and 13 captured or missing: total 1,982. 
It was fought July 21, 1861, and about 30,000 soldiers were engaged on 
each side. 

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July, 1861. 



Of Judge Thomas J. Anderson and Wife 

and all too soon, and more than you will care to read. Hark! 
I hear the train, it is coming just now, and I tremble all over 
lest it herald more bad news. Your father and Virgil have now 
arrived from the depot with the news from the seat of war, which 
is not (juite so bad as we feared. None of our men from this 
place are among the killed unless it be Will. Williams,^ a son 
of B. H. Williams, who was in the fight. You can imagine the 
terrible suspense of his parents. 

You probably wonder why T don't give you the town news. 
We have none. Everybody is absorbed in the war. It is the 
last thing at night, and the first in the morning. Men of course 
attend to their ordinary avocations, but their thoughts are of 
their country. I am much interested in your letters and those 
of P. and thank you for them. Princie's descriptive powers are 
excellent. May God bless and protect you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. .\NDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jtily 23, 1901. 

My dear Son : — Yours of the 2yth ult. came duly to hand by 
way of the Department of State. * * * You must not pay 
too much attention to the criticisms in the New York Tribune, 
and in the Cincinnati Commercial, of our army officers, and 
others in high position. We are pretty well satisfied that in 
their fault finding, they are actuated by personal feeling and 
prejudice. 

You would be astonished to see the stand taken by many of 
our Ohio people, from whom we should expect better things, in 
favor of the Rebels in the south. 

Our soldiers who are in western Virginia fought a hard 
battle 2 some ten days since, but the 3d and 4th regiments, 
O. V. I., were not in it. We are all in gloom over our defeat 

1 Will. Williams escaped death. After the war he rose to some promi- 
nence as a business man in Chicago. 

2 Battle of Carrick's Ford, fought July 13. 1861. The Rebels were 
defeated at Rich Mountain, Laurell Hill, and Carrick's Ford, in July 1861. 

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at Ikill Run, in Virginia- — -about twenty miles from Washing- 
ton. We had, it is reported, 40,000 troops in battle, and the 
Rebels 40,000 or more. Some of our regiments were badly cut 
to pieces and forced to retreat. We have not yet had time to 
receive the particulars. • It is said that w'e lost nearly three 
thousand in the late battle, and the enemy about the same. A 
great portion of our heavy cannon fell into the hands of the 
enemy. Beauregard, Jeff Davis, Joseph E. Johnston, and other 
able Rebel generals were in the battle. Your uncle, Hiram An- 
derson,^ has two sons in the army. One was in the last mentioned 
battle," and the other in the battles" in western Virginia. One 
or both may have been killed. We shall not learn for some time 
the names of the slain. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 6, 1861. 

My DEAR Son : — We have a lot of Rebel sympathizers 
throughout the North, and a good many Rebels also. The Re- 
publicans, like true patriots, now go in for Union men for of- 
fice whatever may have l)een their political predilections in the 
past. We think it is time to lay aside party and party feeling, 
and stand by those alone who aid and sustain the government. 

A thousand Indiana soldiers passed through here Friday last 
on their way east, and the same number will go through to- 
day. Our 4th Ohio Regiment is now in Hampshire County, 
Virginia. We expect a great liattle near Washington before 
long, where more lives will be lost than at the battle of Bull 
Run. We shall finally subdue the Rebels, but it will cost lives 
and money to do it. These sacrifices we are prepared to make 
for the sake of the Union and a good government. 

Notwithstanding there are a great many first rate Union 
men in the Slave States, there will never again be a good social 

1 Rev. Hiram H. Anderson. 
^ The battle of Bull Run. 

3 The battle of Rich Mountain, July 11, 1861, and Carrick's Ford, July 
13, 1861. 

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July, 1861. 
Eight years Secretary of State of the United States. 



Ot Judge Thomas J. Anderson and Wile 

feeling l;et\veen the people of tlic two sections. JJolh the rebels 
and the demagogues are all wrong. * * * 

I hope yott and Princess enjoyed yottr visit to Berlin. How 
did Mary like it? Can she talk any German yet? Virgil' 
wrote you to-day. Several of our neighbors will send you let- 
ters today. 

I just returned from the depot, where I saw Col. Meredith's 
Indiana regiment of i.ooo men. We gave them a luncheon. 
They go direct to Washington. 

The Union men here expect to bring out Judge John Bar- 
tram, (heretofore as you know a locofoco), for the legislature. 
The opposition is divided between Dr. John M. Christian,"" 
Peyton Hotd, H. T. Van Fleet, and others. 

It is said that the disloyal elements in this and other States 
have organized a powerful secret society called the Knights of 
the Golden Circle, and that all the low trash in the country 
belong to it. Knights indeed ! I must close. 

Your Father. 



VFRGIL D. .-\NDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 6, 1861. 

Dear Brother : — On the 5th inst. I received yours of the 
20th ult., and some Hamburg newspapers. We think it strange 
that you receive so few letters, when we have written regularly 
every two weeks. Father sent a letter which should have left 
here in the same mail that contained Mr. J. S. Reed's.^ Why 
it did not reach you puzzles us. Your letters are regularly 

^ Dr. Virgil Dunlevy Anderson, son of Judge Thomas J. Anderson. 

- Dr. Christian, a descendant of ancient, distinguished. Virginia an- 
cestry, was a classical scholar, and for years the principal of the Marion 
Academy. Peyton Hord was born in Virginia, inherited good jjatriotic 
blood, and in the Ohio Legislature in 1867 voted for Allen G. Thurman, 
for U. S. Senator. Van Fleet was a sober, industrious, eloquent, success- 
ful lawyer, of good New York, Knickerbocker, Revolutionary stock. His 
grandfather, Joshua Van Fleet, for three years a brave soldier of the 
Revolution, from the state of New York, died June 8, 1848, at the age of 
84, and was buried in the little graveyard just north of Big Island, in 
Marion county, Ohio. 

3 James S. Reed, was born in Massachusetts April 13, 1818, came to 
Marion In June 18.39, and in December 1841, married Miss Nancy A. Holmes. 
He was a merchant, insurance adjuster, and later a banker, and amassed 

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received and answered. It is very dull here. Everything offered, 
for sale is low, that is, prices are way down, and the farmers 
complain bitterly. It has been dry for two months, but now 
we are getting some fine showers. 

YoLi are probably not aware that Bert Cooper,' a member of 
the 4th Ohio reg., and the leader of the band, and who was sent 
by his general some six miles distant to see another member of 
the band, was killed. Just before arriving at his destination he 
was shot dead by concealed Rebels, one shot taking effect in his 
face, and another in his heart, which of course killed him in- 
stantly. He was buried where he was stationed in western 
Virginia. The regiment is now near Cumberland, Md. 

Day before yesterday, Emery's wife entered his mill, was 
caught in the machinery, and instantly killed. The back part 
of her head was crushed, and nearly every bone in her body 
broken. 

Judge Ozias Bowen" has been talking of writing to you, 
but I think he has not done so yet. You have already been in- 

a fortune. He was a refined man of ability, and a good writer. He died' 
in Marion January 28, 189G, leaving three children: Sophronia, ("Nony,") 
who married John Williams of Chicago. James H.. and Sarah E., who 
married James Delano, of New Bedford, Mass. James H. was twice married. 
By his first wife he had one son, James P. Reed. Nancy A. Holmes, who 
became the wife of James S. Reed, was born in 1.S19. and died in Marion 
August 5. 1S95. Her father Samuel Holmes, a pioneer surveyor, came to 
Marion County in 1821, and bought the S. V- S. E. 'a of Sec. 21, his home 
for- many years, now entirely occupied by the western part of Marion. 
J.Tmos Reed, father of James S. Reed. Elizabeth True, and Sara Johnson, 
was born at Middleboro, Mass., February 2(5, 1783, and died in Marion, 
January 19, 1881. He was a son of Benj. Reed, a Revolutionary soldier, 
and a grandson of Sara Warren, a descendant of Richard Warren, of 
Plymouth, one of the signers of the compact in the Mayflower. 

1 Note. Sturgiss Herbert Cooper, commonly called Bert, (mentioned in- 
V. D. Anderson's letter.) was named for his uncle the good George Sturgiss, 
for 8 years rector of r t. Paul's Episcopal Church, Marion, O. Bert was a 
prominent musician in the 4th reg. O. V. I., with the rank of corporal, 
and was the first Marion soldier killed. His brother Edward was killed 
after his term of service had expired, just before Lee's surrender. Charles 
Cooper lost an arm in the service, and Albert his health, dying soon after 
reaching home. Cooper Post, G. A. R., organized in Marion August 12, 
1881, was named for these patriotic and gallant, but ill-fated soldiers. Few 
young men stood higher in Marion than the Cooper boys. 

- Hon. Ozias Bowen. born July 23, 1805, in Oneida county, N. Y., was a 
gentleman of the old school, of commanding appearance, and an able, suc- 
cessful lawyer. He came to Marion in 1828, and prospered. He was Com- 
mon Pleas Judge 14 years, and afterwards Supreme Judge of Ohio by 
appointment and by election. He always lived in style and bore himself 
IJke a prince. He died September 26, 1871, leaving, a fortune for litigation, 
to dissipate. 

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formed of the sad death hy drowning-, of cousin Frank Ander- 
son's Httle child. 

■ In about one month Marion will be "lit up" with gas — 15 
lamp posts to start with. P , who bought poultry last win- 
ter, has Hed far away — to parts unknown. C. Carroll Goodman's 
rheumatism secured him a discharge from the army, and his 
brother Marshall enlisted in his place. 

Congress has passed an act taxing salaries in excess of 
$800.00 five per cent, per annum. When you write again give 
us information, and say more about little matters. For example, 
tell us about * * * How do the common people appear? 
Are they bold and impudent like many foreigners in this country, 
or polite and well behaved ? We are pretty well considering the 
weather, for the mercury is now standing at 96 in the shade. 
Write often and at greater length. Your afifectionate brother. 

V. D. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. AXDl-'.RSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1861. 

Mv DEAR Son: — Yours of the 21st ult. came duly to hand 
"^ -■'• "'= 1 am concerned al)Out Princie's health. Can nothing- 
be done? Germany is renowned for the skill of her physicians. 
Princie should not become homesick, nor worried by anxieties 
of any kind, for I am convinced that either homesickness, or 
extreme anxiety, would be nearly as injurious to a person con- 
stituted as she is, as yellow fever or cholera. To her I recom- 
mend calmness and contentmei-it. 

Mrs. B. R. Durfee ^ is now in camp with her husband in 
Va. In a letter to Mrs. Dunlap, she says, that hundreds of the 
soldiers are on the sick list. A large four story brick building 
has been converted into a hospital, and it is packed from base- 
ment to attic. Many of our troops are now entrenched in the 



1 Col. Bradford R. Durfee's wife's maiden name was Pauline M. 
Peters, the intelligent daugliter of Nathan Peters, an old, much respected 
citizen of Marion, and a man of means. Their .son is now one of the 
al)le. reliable lawyers of Marion, and belongs to the popular firm of Scofield, 
Durfee, and Scofield. 

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inonntains near Oakland, Md. The summer residence of Jeff. 
Davis, writes Harry Boyd, is here, and is not much of a structure. 

James H. Godman is at home on a furlough. Will remahi 
ten days. He looks brown and better than you ever saw him. 
Those in delicate health appear to be benefited by camp life. It 
IS the robust that suft'er, which I cannot account for, unless they 
are careless of their health. 

Col. Depuy,! who married Amanda Beatty- and who is 
now in command of a regiment in \'a., was recently thrown from 
his horse and hurt. His wife is going on to take charge of him, 
and says she will remain near him during the war. Heaven 
only knows how long the war will last. 

We have constant rumors that b^.igland and France contem- 
plate the recognition of the Southern Confederac\-, but I can't 
believe it. Time only will develoj) its truth or falsitv. 

Dear Princess : Mrs. Wildl^ahn, ]\Irs. Dunlap, Mrs. True, 
and her sister, and our neighbor Mrs. Jane S. W^illiams send 
their kind regards. Fifty others would do so if they knew I 
was writing. Hattie Fribley has talked a great deal about writ- 
ing, but does not appear to have energy enough to do so. ^Irs. 
Princess Copeland, has another daughter. Mrs. John W. I'ain. 
Mrs. Ollie M. Phillips. Mrs. .Amos Kling, and Mrs. George 
Smith, arc not i^^oiug out.. Did you get the papers that Cora 
sent to you ? May the ( iod of all grace be over and about you 
all. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. .\NDERSON TO JAME.S H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ottio. August 20, 1861. 

Mv DEAR Son : — Yours of the 27th ult. came duly to hand. 
* *' * Our soldiers in the field are generally healthy. Maj. 
J. H. Godman has returned home from western Va., on a fur- 
lough of 10 or 12 days. Gen. Lyon,-"^ one of our best officers 

1 Hermin G. Depuy. Colonel of the Sth reg. O. V. I. 

2 Sister of Gen. John Beatty. 

3 Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, killed in battle at Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 1861. 

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was killctl in l)attle in Mo. * * * This war must l)e 
prosecuted till the Rebels are subdued. We have had many 
traitorous ministers and consuls abroad, misrepresenting' this 
government, luit the hope now is that they are mostly removed 
and good faithful men in their places. I know you Vi'ill at all 
times firml}- support your government. We have had too many 
milk-and-water men abroad, men that had not sufficient patriotism 
to stand up for our rights against traitors, and influential for- 
eigners who dislike us. Charles James Faulkner of Va.. for 
instance, our late minister to France, who is now in custody for 
his treasonable conduct while abroad. '■' * * I hope 
Mary will not forget her grandfather. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — 1 have spoken to Ben. Olney and ^Ir. Davis on 
the subject of timber for rails for vour Marion countv Deal Farm. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDl^RSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

]\L\RioN, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1861. 

My DEAR Son : — Yours of the i()th ult. came to hand. 
* * '" I expected to hear that Princess was completely 
prostrated ; I thank God she is no worse. Annie is away from 
home on a visit, and will not therefore write at this time. We 
thought Princie's letters to Annie ^ and Lizzie - so excellent, 
and so full of interesting matter that we concluded to hand them 
to the editor to be published. W'e trust she will not be dis- 
satisfied with the liberty Ave have taken. When she sees them 
in print she need not blush for they are highly creditable to her. 
Indeed I am proud of them ; I wish all my children could write 
as well. If it be true that the subject and the occasion make 
the man, why not the woman? I expect to visit Wyandot county 
on Friday next, and will hand Mrs. Taylor ^ a paper containing 
the letters. 

1 Annie E. Anderson. 

- E;iizabeth V. Tlllotson. 

^ Mrs. R. N. Taylor, a si.ster of Mrs. James H. Anderson. 

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You have not said a word about the defeat of our army at 
Manassas.^ You no doubt get the papers and are posted. Virgit 
just came in and says Gen. Butler has taken Fort Hatteras,^ 
700 prisoners, and arms and other munitions of war. This is, 
good news. Tlic traitors will soon find that they have enough 
to do at home without invading the loyal states. 

Maj. James H. Godman, who was at home on furlough, has 
returned to his regiment. He was on duty near Avhere the battle 
of Rich Mountain was fought, and represents the scene as hor- 
rible. Col. John Beatty,^ who is now at home on business for 
his regiment, says he saw trenches full of dead bodies at Rich 
Mountain. He showed us a cartridge taken from one of the 
enemy. May the God of all grace be round about you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, O., Sept. 3, 1861. 
Dear Son : — I will now give you an account of what T liave 
collected. ''' * ''•' Salaries have not been reduced, but 

' Battle of Bull Run. fought July 21, 1861. Union army under Mc- 
Dowell, 30,000 strong, defeated by about 30,000 Confederates under Johnston- 
and Beauregard. 

- Gen. Butler and Commodore Stringham. with 10 vessels, carrying 
loS guns, and 900 men, reduced Fort Clark, August 27th, and Fort Hattei'as 
(Hatteras Inlet, N. C.,) Aug. 28th, ISfil, capturing the commandant of the 
forts, and 700 prisoners. 

^ John Beatty was born on a farm near Sandusky, Ohio. Dec. 16, 1828. 
In 1855 he became interested in the banking business, and from that time 
he followed it (except the years spent in the army and in Congress), with 
intelligent persistence and gratifying results. In the fall of 1860 he was 
elected Presidential Elector by the people of the 13th District of Ohio, and 
cast his electoral vote for Abraham Lincoln for President. In April, 1861, 
he enlisted as a private soldier, was chosen Captain of his Company, and 
a few days later was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the IhirtI Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. In the Spring of 1862, while on duty in Kentucky, he 
was promoted to the Colonelcy of his regiment, and early in 1863 he was 
commissioned Brigadier-General of Volunteers for gallant conduct at" the 
battles of Perryville and Stone River. He was elected to the 40th, 41st and 
42d Congresses; was Republican Presidential Elector at large in .1884; and 
later a member of the Ohio Board of State Charities; and President of the 
Ohio Commission of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military 
Park. In 1854 he was imited in marriage to Miss Lucy M. Tupper, a hand- 
some talented young lady of many pleasing accomplishments. They have 
five children now living (1903), one son and four daughters. 

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Congress has passed an act taxing the salaries of government 
ofificcrs in excess of $800, five per cent. To this extent only 
will salaries be reduced. 

You are aware that many officers, civil and military, vmder 
the last administration proved disloyal. ' Our government is 
removing all officers at home and abroad, in the least suspected 
of disloyalty. There are in our midst many men who by their 
course are giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and who it is 
believed would see our government broken to pieces rather than 
give up their party, and party traditions, and associations. But 
there are honorable exceptions, namely : the Bartrams, John 
Hood. John Blardy, W. H. Searls, Philip Doml^augh. Albert H. 
Brown, William E. Scofield,i Guthrey, Christ, Stuff, and Fred 
Martin, and many others, — all good Union men. They are 
denounced for leaving their party simply because they are deter- 
mined to support the government in putting down the Rebellion. 

Your father, 

T. T- Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Sept. 17. 1861. 

Dear Son : — I just returned from where I saw Mr. 

who informed me that he would neither sign nor return 



the article you sent him. He says it is not drawn in pursuance 
•of the agreement, that he was to have interest at the rate of 
ten per cent, on all moneys advanced by him to make fences and 
pay taxes, from the time the money is advanced till the rent 
becomes due. He says he is to have the place one year, with 
the privilege of three, but is not to expend any of the rent money 
in improvements after the first year, and that he has sublet it 
to Madison Welsh, on the same terms. He says if he should 
decide to hold the place longer than a year, he will sign the 

1 Captain Scofield was a good soldier, a good lawyer, an effective advo- 
cate, and a scholarly gentleman. His accomplished wife, a daughter of 
Judge Wm. G. Norris of Delaware county, was reared at her father's beau- 
tiful country-seat, four miles north of the city of Delaware. 

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article next spring. He says he will i)ay the rent that he con- 
siders he owes for this year when it is due. 

He was very much out of humor on account of a jocose letter 
you wTote him about sleeping on and dreaming about the con- 
tract. Indeed he was very mad, so mad that he hardlv treated 
me with ordinary respect. He thinks or pretends to think your 
letter intentionally offensive. It is unsafe to joke with a stingy 
grasping cross-grained man of wealth, in poor health, who owes 
you money. He thinks you feel above him, or some such non- 
sense. He is not a bad man ; far from it ; he is a member of 
the church. But he is naturally irritable, and in a state of 
chronic excitement from natural or artificial ^ causes. I 
wouldn't have any disagreement with him for the year's rent, 
and I know you wouldn't. Whatever he sees fit to give me 
I shall accept. Another time a contract shall be signed before 
possession is given. 

I ordered 2000 rails made, at $14.00 per thousand, for the 
Deal Farm. Will get more when I can as the place is in need 
of more. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, September 28, 1861. 

My dear Son : — We received a package of letters from Ham- 
burg about ten da}s ago which we read with pleasure. Princie's 
good letter from Pyrmont was a great treat. I trust the trip 
snd sojourn at the "steel springs" will benefit her. . * * * 

29th. To-day I attended church and heard Mr. Newton." 
He has been returned by the Conference as our pastor for an- 
other year. He does very well but was not my choice. We will 
]M-ay for him however, and sustain him, and I hope all will be 

^ The person referred to was an opium eater, or "morphine fiend," 
but a business man of prominence. He died long since after years of 
suffering. 

2 Rev. Isaac Newton, native of England, graduate of O. W. University, 
sincere man. and faithful preacher. 

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well. Air. IJurkholcler ' was sent to Upper Sandusky. The 
Conferenee gave J. Marshall Godman - an appointment. 

Col. Depuy, the husliand of Amanda IJeatty, is stop]Mni;- at 
Mrs. Jane S. Williams' for a few days. He was thrown fron^i 
his horse in Va.. about six weeks ago, and very mueh hurt, 
l)ut he is recovering and expects to be able to rejoin his regiment 
shortly. You have probably heard that our own troops on the 
I2th, 13th and r4th inst. while skirmishing on Cheat Mountain, 
in Randolph Co., \'a., killed C'ol. John A. Washington and 
100 other Rebels. () the horrors of war! You hear much of 
it, but cannot feel and realize it as we do. You say you have 
not heard of any of our men being in an engagement. They 
were not in the battle of Rich Mountain, being' kept on guard 
dut}', but they helped to bur\- the dead, and afterwards joined 
in the pursuit of the enemy. Thev have partici]^ated in two 
skirmishes since, one of which at Petersliurg', \'a., was under 
the command of Maj. J. W. (lodman. Thev were successful in 
both, and in the latter, some prisoners and teams and a large 
quantit\- of j)rovisi()ns were' captured, (ien. Robert .S. (jarnet 
of \'a., was killed by our men at Carrick's Ford. 

Last Thursda\- was oiu" great national fast-dav. Service was 
held in the Episcopal church early in the morning, in the Pres- 
byterian at II o'clock, and in the Methodist in the evening. 

30th. Mrs. Jane S. Williams ^ gave a nice diimer party to- 
day in honor of Col. [)e|my. He is a pleasant gentlemanly man, 
and a good officer. ( )ur County h^air will be held next week, 
but will not be as good as usual for the people are too much 
absorbed in ])olitics and war. Airs. John (iurley, at her sub- 
urban home, entertained handsomeh- last Frida\-. It was fpiite 

^ A jolly good natured preacher, of small caliber, and limited attain- 
ment.s. 

-John Marsliall Godman. son of Cen. James H. Godman. and brother 
of Henry C. Godman the wealthy shoe manufacturer of Columbus. C. gradu- 
ated from the O. W. University, and entered the ministry of the M. E. 
Church. He was an Ohio soldier, and a captain in the civil war. He was 
engaged later in editorial work for a while, and then became a merchant. 
He comes from good Virginia I^evolutionary stock, his ,gv. .sri-andfather. 
William Godman, of Berkeley county. Va., leaving been a caiitiin in the 
Revolution, and afterwards a pensioner'. 

^ Mrs. Jane S. Williams was the widow of Judge Joseph J, Williams, 
who was elected by the I^egislature Jan'y. U. 1847, associate judge of Marion 
county, for seven years from Feb. 2S. 1S47. This able, conscientious judge, 
died soon after liis election, at his hojno in Marion, Novembei' It!. 1S47. 

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a large company. The grounds were filled with autumnal flow- 
ers and looked lovely. The day was so cold that I did not go 
into Mr. G's vineyard, which I wished to do, but some luscious 
grapes were on the table freshly plucked. I should esteem it a 
])rivilege to have access to the fruits of Germany. 

Oct. 1st. A beautiful day after unpleasant weather. I have 
just heard that old Mrs. Elder ^ is not expected to live. Well 
when she leaves, another soul will have escaped to the mansions 
of rest. () that I could more fully appreciate the necessity of 
holy living. 

You and your family are in my thoughts almost continually. 
The inquiry arises, how are they enjoying themselves in that 
far oiT land ? No doubt your eyes and thoughts are oft turned 
westward, for early home associations powerfully influence the 
mind and heart. 

'Mid pleasures and palaces though wc may roam. 
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home." 

But with brave hearts, and an humble reliance on God, you may 
both be happy wherever duty calls you. 

The train has just arrived that brings the morning news. 
What a sensation it creates. All minds are agitated. Men are 
gathered at the depot eager for the papers. Do they convey 
good or batl news? While I am writing I am in anxious sus- 
pense. Has any great disaster befallen us? Has Fremont met 
the enemy? Has he been victoriotis or sutTered defeat? I shall 
hear in a few minutes. Such is otir daily experience. I wish 
very much to see you all and ho])e \xq shall be spared to meet ; 
but if not in this life, may we be ])ermitted to strike glad hands 
on the banks of eternal deliverance. 

Your afl^ectionate mother. 

P. S. — Mr. John Hood is the Union candidate for State Sen- 
ator. I suppose you will think timl)er scarce. Well, it was 

1 Mrs. Jeanette Bain Elder, wife of John Klder, and sister of William 
Bain the dry-goods merchant, was born in Dundee, Scotland, and came to 
Mai-ion after her marriage, about 1835. She was a true woman, and an 
earnest Presbyterian. The Eldens like the Bains, were correct people, 
having- Scotch ideas of industry and integrity. Their daughter Margaret 
Klder married John Moore who was many years a J. P. He died in 1901 
at the age of 82. Ann D. Elder married Col. A. H. Brown. 

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■entirelv unsout^lit. Jlc was a true Union man whom the Demo- 
crats roundly abused, and these facts may have influenced the 
delegates. He has probably voted the Democrat ticket for the 
last time. At Mrs. Gurley's party, John Bain laughingly told 
him that he did not shake hands enough. 



TIIOAFAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. i, 1861. 

Dear Son : — The Irving Bank, New York, has collected the 
three drafts you drew on the Departments at Washington, and 
placed the ])roceeds ($467.37) to my credit less cost of collecting 
■($2.67). I'Lxchange on New York is worth that, so there will be 
no loss. 

I was at Mitcheirs and White's two weeks ago; I got no 
monev. Thev both need more sheep, and as sheep are low they 
wish to put their money in that kind of stock. Their places 
should be well stocked. . They are honest men, and I agreed to 
give them more time. White wishes to plow up the old meadow 
l)v the house as it does not produce well. He says it has been 
a meadow long enough. He wants to make a corn field of it 
next spring, and if permitted to do so, will make as much meadow 
elsewhere on the place. I think I would notify him to break it. 
and sow timothy in another field. You will recollect that Alitchell 
has the Rolling Plain Farm — 640 acres — and White the 320 
acre River ]'"arm. 

Money here generally is very easy. There are people you 
know who are always hard run, and would be if money were as 
plentv as chips. 1 have not bought any notes for I have had 
no monev to spare till cpiite recently. I loaned $2000 a few days 
ago. for sixty days, to a man wdio is prompt and honorable. I 
shall not use any of your money myself unless I can use it to 
\our advantage for I have all the money of my own that I need. 

Clark, on the Deal Farm, has a good crop of corn. We had 
a slight frost on the 3nth ult.. sufficient to nip the blades of corn. 
To-dav is like Indian Summer. The town is healthy, the county 
is healthv. the State is healthy, the country is healthy, and as we 

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liave had good crops this season, if \vc coidd onl_\- snlxhu' tlie 
Rebels we would l)e all right. And this we will most assuredlv 
do, despite the fact that it is a very formidable rebellion. 

The Germans are among our best soldiers, and thev are gen- 
erally good LInion men. And the Irish are pretty good Union 
men. Our boys in the army in western Virginia are doing well. 
The}' have been in two skirmishes already without the loss of a 
man, but caused some slaughter among the Rebels. Major (iod- 
mau was in one, and Capt. Brown in one, and both were firm 
and brave. Capt. P>rown came home last night on a short fur- 
lough. Love to Princess and Mary. Your father. 

T. T. Anderson. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES IT. ANDERSON. 

^LvRioN, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1861. 

My DEAR Brothkr: — Tis Sabbath afternoon and a beautiful 
autumnal day. Nature wears a- somber suit. You should see 
our maples: they are gorgeous in appearance. Their falling 
leaves have many hues. The prospect is almost grand, though 
pathetic and melancholy. If I possessed more idealitv and finer 
descriptive powers, 1 then might hope to give you a just im|)res- 
sion of our Indian Summer as it now appears. I believe it is a 
season peculiar to America. But I shall not attempt it for I 
should fail. 

I wish you were here. How many things I could tell you 
that I cannot write. We have been having high times ferreting 
out the Knights of the (lolden Circle, though none of our folks 
have had anything to do with it. The "loyal Democrats" have 
had all the ferreting to do. The Republicans stood off and 
looked on. You will see by the papers what has been done, 
but the end is not yet, nor do we know what a dav mav bring 
forth. 

You will lie sur])rised to hear that both Maggie and Rebecca 
Cummin are married. Mr. John E. Leonard was married to 
Maggie, and Mr. Robert Beattie to Rebecca, on Thursday morn- 
mg last at 2 o'clock, and they started to Cincinnati on the 4 o'clock 
morning train. Mr. lU-attie came here last July from Phila- 

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delpliia, and since tliat lime has liccn employed in the store of 
Johnson & Co. l\el)ecca told nie that they had been en.i^jaged 
for three years. Well, these ^■oun^• ladies have enil)arked on a 
sea of tmcertainty. 

Mr. Dnrfee,^ and Mr. Dickerson,- are now at home on fur- 
lough. Mr. Brown •'' was at home, but has returned. Mrs. God- 
man, and her son Williatu, have gone to visit Mr. Godman.^ A 
new company is forming here. Recruiting olificers are here al- 
most daily. A great many cannon on gun carriages passed 
through here to-day for Gen. Anderson.'' 

It is often a task for me to write, l)ut not when writing to 
you. I experience a pleasure in corresponding with a brother 
in a far distant land, a stranger among strangers. Though you 
may enjoy all the comforts, yea luxuries of life, and mingle in 
polite society, having kind friends an<l your own loving family 
near, yet I am persuaded you would feel sad and disappointed if 
no word or kind message came from home to gladden your heart. 
We do not realize how much we love our friends until we are 
separated, and T feel that love is the most precious attribute of 
the heart, (u've my love to Princess, and kiss sweet little Mary 
for me. Adieu dear l)rother, and believe me 

Your atTectionate sister 

Annie. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. AT4DERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1861. 

Dear Son : — We are anxiously awaiting your letters. * * * 
( )ur government is calling for more volunteers. Many of the 
three montlis men are re-enlisting. Eugene *' was sworn in 

1 Col. B. R. Durfee. 

- Ijientenant T. H. Dickerson. 

° Capt. A. FI. Brown. 

■* Maj. J. H. Godman. 

^ Gen. Robert Anderson, of Ft. Sumter fame. 

"Capt. Thomas Eugene Tillotson. (nephew of Mrs. T. J. Anderson), 
Bryant Grafton, and David A. 'Scott, became captains in the (Utli reg. O. 
V. I. 

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last week for three years, also his brother Cliarley, Bryant Graf- 
ton, and others. D. A. Scott is recruiting another company. 

Capt. Albert H. Brown came home just before the election, 
and dismayed and scattered the half-hearted and disloyal. He 
made no bones of calling all traitors who did not vote the Union 
ticket, and you know that he had always been an ultra Democrat. 
He made several speeches while at home that would have sur- 
prised you. We had no idea he could speak so well. I heard 
him in the court-house yard, and am now inclined to think that 
the su])ject and the occasion, more than the speaker's educational 
advantages, enable him to acquit himself well, and to satisfy and 
entertain his audience. To l)e sure no great oratorical power 
was displayed ; it was a plain impressive matter of fact talk. 
X(jr was he daunted though the assemblage was large. You will 
naturally suppose there was a good deal of wincing by persons 
called out and charged with falsehood, treason, and conspiracy 
against the government. He said that those who refused to 
vote the Union ticket were giving aid and comfort to the enemy. 
He §aid that while he and his fellow-soldiers were fighting the 
battles of the country, keeping the enemy from invading our 
own state, that they were safe at home, secretly plotting, and 
forming infamous organizations against the government, for the 
purpose of securing the pettv offices that thev imagined to be 
within the gift of the Democratic party. He said he intended 
to stay till after the election, and take the news back to Camp 
Pendleton that the Union ticket was elected. Brown said that 
those opposing the Union ticket would ''find themselves glori- 
ously missing," and so it came about. * * * The soldiers 
of .the 4th regiment wdio went from this county, sent home by 
Capt. Albert H. Brown, to be given to their families. Five Thou- 
sand Dollars. So you see they are beginning to live on their 
-own earnings. 

By the way, I forgot to tell you that Marion is now lighted 
with gas. A lamp post is near our house, — in front of the 
Episco|)al church. Mrs. Kate Godman informed me that she 
had just received a letter from Princie. 

When you leave your summer home and return to the city, 

I hope you may be al)le tf^ secure a pleasant suite of rooms in a 

.good hotel on the second lloor. I'rincie should not have to 

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mount more than one tiight of stairs. Mrs. Maggie Pollock ^ 
has been verv sick, and Mr. Pollock has been at death's door 
twice, with hemorrhage of the lungs. 

Your aft"ectionate mother, 

Nancy W. Anderson. 

P. S. — John \V. Pain has scjld his residence to George Smith, 
and bought the Sharpless homestead on East Center street. 
Sharpless will remove to his large cranberry marsh near Ply- 
mouth, Ohio. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 29, 1861. 

Dear Son : — I was not re-elected Justice. John Moore, Tohn 
Hardy and J. I\P Pleller were elected. The business men all say 
I was beaten liecause I did my duty. I was defeated by the 
ralil;)le. S as usual opposed me. 

I allowed Robt. Mitchell, and brother, to renew their note. 
They are restocking the farm with sheep, which they bought low, 
and wool is advancing. The wool they sold in the summer for 
30 cents per lb. is now worth 40 to 50. 

Leipsic you know is one of the great fur markets of the 
world. 1 wish you would try to find out by inquiry of Leipsic 
buvers and merchants, what price our American furs of this 
latitude will probably command the coming winter. * * * 

P)V the time you get this, you will have heard of the dis- 
astrous defeat of our troops under Col. E. D. Baker, (IL S. 
Senator from Oregon,) at the battle of Pall's Pluff, Va., where 



1 Margaret Drake, born October 8, 1840, married Robert F. Pollock, 
who died February 23, 1804: after Pollock's death she married R. L,. 
Douglas, of Philadelphia, who was born in Pulaski, N. Y., September 4, 
1831. Margaret's father was Daniel S. Drake, owner of a large stock farm 
in Marion county, O. He died in 1880. Daniel's father Judge Wm. S. Drake, 
a soldier in the "War of '12, was an Englishman, and the wealthy founder 
of the Drake Family in Delaware, later Marion county, O. He died in 1847. 
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have four children living, namely: Margaret, France.s 
Juliat, James B., and George W, — highly accomplished and truly patriotic 
girls and boys. 

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ihal unfurtmiate (jfficcr was killed. It cast a gloom over the 
^cotintry.i 

You will be surprised to learn that little Luther Denison was 
lately married to Miss Sallie Pancoast, a sister of Mrs. Dr. J. 
I). Gailey. She is not more than fifteen years older than Luther, 
and an excellent woman. 

You will see by the newspaper clipping herewith, that the 
.German officer you recommended at Hamburg, came direct to 
Washington, and was sent by the War Department to Gov. Den- 
nison. who appointed him colonel of the 67th reg. O. V. I. The 
papers say he was appointed on the recommendation of Consul 
Anderson. 

Your uncle John's son, Thomas,- passed through here last 
week for the east to join the army. He volunteered at Warsaw, 
Ind. S. A. Griswold '■ and family, leave this place this week 
for Lancaster, (J., where they expect to remain. Rev. L N. 
Shepherd will remove in two weeks to Munsie. Ind., wdiere he 
will locate. David Tod's majority for governor of Ohio, will 
be ajjout 55.000. The L'uion party has also a large majority in 
the legislature. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1861. 

Dear James: — It would be very gratifying to see you all, but 
as this can't be I can at least converse with you by letter. I 
think about you very much, and pray for your health and wel- 
fare, for pleasant relations between yourself and the people among 
whom you reside, and that your standing before your own country 
may continue high. It is much harder I know to serve the 



^ About 1,900 Union troops tinder Colonels Baker and Devens were 
ombushed and utterly routed October 21, lSi;i. and Baker the brilliant 
orator, slain in a hand to hand encounter. 

- Capt. Thomas J. Anderson, Jr. 

■' Mr. Griswold. who died at Lancaster. Oliio. in 1S99. aged 84, was 
•editor of the Marion Buckeye Eagle in 1844; later county auditor; postmaster; 
recorder of Marion. <>tc. Able writer and upright man. He was postmaster 
at Marion from 1S-1!» to 1S53. He was the first child born in Colurnbus 
after it became tlie i-apital of tiie State. 

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country at this time than ever hcforc. iov there is so much (hs- 
triist. So much villainy has hcen practiced, that the President 
and Cabinet d(jn"t know whom to trust. Thinj^s have come to 
an awful i)ass. and a crisis is at hand. 

It seems that the government even suspects Fremont of cor- 
ruption. If such men can't sustain themselves, what is to be- 
come of smaller ones? I believe however that the great charge 
against Fremont ^ is incompetency. There is but one rule to go 
b\-. the rule of right, which T know will govern your actions in 
the future as in the past. 

I am sorrv vou have so much work to do, Init it no dou1)t 
])r()tects you from homesickness and probably enables you to pass 
the time more pleasantly than if you were altogether idle. I 
know what it is to be overworked and it is not a pleasant thing. 
Annie is anxiouslv looking for her liox. We can't conjecture 
what detains it. 

Your affectionate mother. 



AIR.S. THOMAS J. .\NDERSON TO MliS. JAMES II. ANDEI-tSON. 

Mario r>J. Ohio, Nov. 12, 1861. 

Dear I'rincie: — I received your kind letter of the 30th ult. 
You cannot imagine how much pleasure I derive from the perusal 
of your letters. You sav vou were pained at the idea of having 
your letters pul)lished. 1 am now glad it was not done, though I 
was provoked at Dumble's stupidity at the time, and took the 
letters away. 

Annie, Lizzie and A^irgil received letters vesterda\' from Ham- 
burg. I thought I discovered a vein of melancholv in your let- 
ter to Annie. Xow dearest, dt^n't allow yourself to l)e low spir- 
ited. The deadliest poison mav be more swift, but not more 
certain in its effect on yc^ur constitution. T am well aware that 
while living in a foreign country, far removed from kindred and 

^ Gen. John Charles Fremont, topog-raphical engineer, son-in-law of 
U. S. Senator Bentori, heroic "Patlifinder," Republican candidate for the 
Presidency in 1856, was commissioned a major general in the regular army 
in July ISfil. and was relieved of his command in Missouri. October 24. ]S61, 
lay orrli-i' of President Lincoln. 

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friends save those of your own household, such feehngs will 
sometimes unconsciously steal upon you, but do not yield to 
gloomy musings and forebodings. Flee to God : He is a very 
help in the day of trouble. Your spirits are naturally buoyant, 
hence the greater injury sustained from depression. 

Your graphic description of your calling expedition was amus- 
mg and instructive. Y'our account of the return calls and card 
language interested me. You refer to your greenness. I dare 
say few Americans would betray less. 

We are having beautiful weather. The chrysanthemums are 
out in all their glory, but the frost has subdued nearly every- 
thing else. 

News Column. 

We have had most encouraging news from our fleet. Port 
Royal bombarded, two forts taken ; troops landed in South Caro- 
lina, and marching on Charleston. We await further news with, 
breathless anxiety. Our arms are also successful in Mo. 

Dr. Carpenter was here on Friday, on his wav to Pittsburg,, 
to take depositions. I believe I informed James long ago, that 
Dr. C. had had a leg broken in a railroad collision. He uses two 
crutches. His limb was badly set ; it was a compound fracture- 
and hard to reduce. The broken leg is very crooked and three 
inches shorter than the other. He feels dreadfully about it. 
Before the accident, he raised a company, but on the advice of 
friends, turned it over to another officer. He afterwards decided 
to recruit another company, went to Indianapolis, where he was 
authorized by governor Morton to do so, got a commission, and 
while returning home the disaster happened.^ 

Mr. J. S. Robinson of Kenton was in town last week and 
took tea with us. He holds a captain's commission in the Fourth 

^ Dr. James H. Carpenter, M. D.. married Minerva, daughter of John 
Anderson, practiced medicine in Indiana about 10 years, was then admitted 
to the bar, moved to Warsaw, Ind., secured a good legal practice, entered 
the service as a captain a year after breaking his leg, became a major, 
and after the war was elected Circuit Court Judge. After he retired from 
the bench he resumed the practice of law, and became general attorney 
for the B. & O. R. R. Co., between Pennsylvania and Chicago. He was 
born in Virginia in 1822, and died at Garrett, Ind., May 1.3, 1882. His widow 
died August 1, 1901, at the same place, leaving eight well-educated interest- 
ing children, namely: Ella A.. Mary, Alice, James Franklin, Thomas Ander— 
son, Howard, Herbert, and Walter. 

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regiment (our regiment. ) was sent home on business, and has 
since received a major's commission in a new regiment that B. 
R. Durfee and others are raising.^ The cHsloyal partisans in 
this part of the State have cooled down wonderfully since their 
defeat at the polls, and the exposure of the Knights of the Gol- 
den Circle. 

Even Mr. is assisting to raise a company, — expect- 
ing to liecome a quarter-master. 

Truth Stranger Tpian Fiction ! 

Would you believe it ? Mrs. Linn - has obtained a divorce ! 
And Sallie Pancoast and little Luther Denison were married a 
few days ago ! ! Adieu Princie. 

Your affectionate mother. 

P. S. — I received the beautiful engraving of Pyrmont — 
noted for its "steel springs" — and intend having it framed. 



VIRGIL D. xVNDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

ALxRioN, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1861. 

Dear Brother : — Yours of the 19th ult. received vesterday, 
and was much pleased to hear from you. When I reflect that 
my only brother is so far away, and that the ocean separates us, 
a cloud of loneliness oppresses me. I think of you daily and 

1 James S. Robinson of Kenton, Ohio, was born on a farm near Mans- 
field, Ohio, October 14, 1827, and enlisted as a private in the 4th O. V. I., 
in April 18G1. On April 10th he was advanced to a captaincy. On December 
31st he was appointed major of the 82d reg. O. V. I., and on April 9, 1862, 
he was appointed lieutenant colonel. On the 29th of August, 1862, he was pro- 
moted to colonel of the S2d, and on the 12th of January, 1865, he was made 
a Brigadier-General. His rank as Brevet-Major General, dates from March 
13, 1S65. He was a brave, handsome officer, about si>; feet tall, genial and 
generous, but without military education or genius. After the war he was 
a member of Congress, Secretary of State of Ohio, and held other offices, 
state and federal. He died in Kenton. Ohio, January 14, 1892. 

- A strong-minded, old-time, abolitionist, and champion of Woman's 
Rights, called by the nickname of "Major Linn." Her honest, industrious 
husband, Daniel Linn, who owned the large and valuable farm on which 
the family resided about four miles east of Marion, was noted for his 
meekness. "Major" Linn's maiden name was Mary Ann Geiger. Many jokes 
were cracked and funny stories rehearsed at the "major's" expense, in the 
aiite-beUiim days. 

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pray for your safe return. I shall now give you some local news, 
although I fear others have trenched on this field. 

You have probably been informed that at the late election we 
carried the county, giving the State and county Union ticket 137 
majority. Christ. Martin labored faithfully for its success. He 
worked hard, night and day, and by much exposure brought on 
a fever from which after nine days sickness he died. We all 
deplore his loss for he fought our Southern sympathizers with- 
out gloves, and did the Union cause great service. Christ, was 
buried by the Masons, and an extraordinary concourse of citizens 
attended his funeral. His place of business, which is large and 
convenient, had just been finished, and will now prove a great 
loss to his family. * * * 

Tristam sold out a short time ago, and is now foreman for 
Searls, in the boot and shoe business. Samuel A. Griswold has 
left the bank and removed to Lancaster, Ohio, where he takes 
charge of an establishment for the manufacture of daguerreo- 
type plates, an invention of his In-other Victor. In giving the 
local news, I jump from one item to another, and jot them 
down as they occur to me without reference to consecutive order. 

Our vote this fall was as heavy as last, although some three 
hundred volunteers had left the county. Now our absent volun- 
teers number six hundred. Cantwell,^ the lieutenant colonel 
of the 4th, (the Ohio regiment to which our Marion boys belong, 
now lying at Romney, Va.,) has resigned. Cantwell, B. R. Dur- 
fee, and Jim. Roliinson (of Kenton), have been authorized to 
raise a new regiment to be called the 82d, of which Cantwell is 
to be colonel, Durfee lieutenant colonel, and Robinson, major. 
* * * • 

On Friday last the 8th inst., in the evening about half past 
seven, east of town a few miles, on the pike, just north of Slick's 
tavern, a most shocking murder was committed. Mrs. Ulsh, 
the wife of Levi Ulsh, was at home, quietly seated in her sitting 
room knitting, when some one fired at her through a Avindow, 
inflicting a mortal wound, from the effects of which she died 
in about an hour. The ball that killed her passed through her 

1 Col. James Cantwell of Kenton, Ohio, was killed August 29, 1862, 
at the battle of Manassas. He was the colonel of the 82d Ohio; had heen 
lieut. col. of the 4th Ohio. A brave competent officer, whose death was 
much lamented. 

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lungs, and came out at her shoulder blade. The gun was loaded 
with several shot, and three slugs, only one of which took effect. 
A boy seventeen years old and a little girl, were the only persons 
in the room with Mrs. Ulsh when she was assassinated. Neigh- 
bors came in before she died, to whom she talked, but she could 
give no clew whatever as to who committed the deed. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ulsh were married last May, and he is the 

man who had a difficulty with the girl. The latter it is 

said was grossly wronged. A very few suspect of the 

■crime. But , who , is strongly suspected by many. 

His conduct respecting the murdered woman, is said to have been 
somewhat strange. Mr. Ulsh.^ who a few days before the mur- 
der had started to New York, with live stock, for the N. Y. 
market, was notified by telegraph of the murder, and immedi- 
ately returned home. An investigation will take place, which 
we trust and believe will discover the murderer; for imtrdcr 
zi'ill out. 

You wish to know who have gone to the wars. Well, M. G.. 
and his brother C. C. G., volunteered for three months, and when 
the time was up, the latter reenlisted for three years. But he 
soon complained of rheumatism, and became so lame as to be 
unable to do duty at all. He was finally released and is now at 
home. Some of the boys say "it was all make-believe," — and 
they get off their jokes about "rheumatism," l)ut in my opinion 

C was actually afflicted to some extent. Will. Davis, and 

many others returned home when their three months were out, 
but have again volunteered. Old Bill Hutchison, David O. 
Cone, Jack Barnett, and other stars have volunteered, and are 
now at the front. Hiram Meiley of Albert Brown's company, 
(4th reg. O. V. I), was slightly wounded in both knees at the 
battle of Romney. 

Your friend Byron Wilson,- of the Navy, is in the neigh- 
borhood of Cairo, in command of a gunboat. T. Corwin 

1 Levi Ulsh was born February 3, 1827, and died September 23, 3^897. 
The so-called sleuths have had 42 years to find his wife's murderer, but 
have made no discoveries. Vv'ho committed the crime yet remains a 
mystery. Will it never be known? 

2 A graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, a brave, capable officer, 
an elegant gentleman, and an honest man. Was a captain in the U. S. 
Navy. Would soon have been a Commodore. He was born in Marion, De- 
cember 17, 1837 and died at Philadelphia, September 6, 1893. 

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Bowen/ of the Navy, is either on the Potomac, or with our 
tleet now reported to he bombarding Charleston. Uncle John 
Anderson's son, Thomas J. Anderson, Jr., while visiting his 
brother-in-law. Dr. James H. Carpenter, at Warsaw, Ind., en- 
tered the service as a volunteer. The regiment to which he be- 
longs passed through here a few days since en route to Wash- 
ington. 

At your recjuest I send you a , but I hope you will not 

show it to any one, for as a newspaper it is a disgrace. Old John 
Kroft of Gallon, says you promised him a letter. It would do 
him good to get one. Cora says that Annie gets all the presents. 
She thinks that uncle James might send her something. I 
wouldn't throw a good present away myself. Mother's health 
is about as it was w'hen you were here. Love to all. 
Your affectionate brother, 

V. D. Anderson. 



mrs. thomas j. anderson to james ii. anderson. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. i86i. 

Dear James: — You speak of having a scheme on foot to take 
the wind out of the sails of some American traitors. I know that 
you are actuated by patriotic motives, and that your object is 
the good of the country ; but be careful not to transcend your 
authority. A slight error in a government agent may be con- 
strued into a very grave oft'ense. At every step you take, be 
sure you are borne out and sustained by the Law of Nations. 
These are very critical times. Our nation cannot afford to get 
into a quarrel with any other just now. 

Some think that England will flare up at the forcible removal 
from The Trent — one of her vessels — of Mason and Slidell," 

1 Thomas Corwin Bowen, son of Hon. O. Bowen, a graduate of the 
U. S. Naval Academy, an officer of courage, capacity, and striking appear- 
ance. He was born in Marion, October 14, 1840, and since the Civil War 
has been a successful civil engineer. 

- In 1861 the Confederate Government sent John Slidell and J. M. 
Mason, as Commissioners to France and Great Britain, respectively. They 
ran the blockade to Havana, and embarked thence in the British mer- 
chant ship "The Trent." On November 8th "The Trent" was stopped by 
Capt. Wilkes, of the U. S. ship "San Jacinto," Mason and Slidell were seized, 
and taken to Boston, but were afterwards surrendered to Great Britain 
to avoid war. 

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but I think not. England as a government I beUeve is friendly. 
She has bad citizens or subjects who are engaged in fitting out 
privateers, but she Can't help that. 

I ask Cora what I shall say for her. She says : "Tell uncle 
James that I think one of the things in that box might have 
been for me." 

Your mother. 



JAMES H. ANDERSON, U. S. CONSUL, TO THE SECRETARY OE STATE. 

Consulate of the United States, 
Hamburg, October 27, 1861. 

Sir: — I have ah-eady sent you a dispatch of this date (No. 35), on 
the subject of the shipment from this port of a large quantity of arms 
and other equipments for an army. * * * 

Captain Eastman of Maine arrived at this port a short time ago 
from the Indies. He determined to sell his ship, leave for home, and 
endeavor to get the command of a gunboat. He soon effected a sale. 
He appeared to me like a man of dauntless courage, ambition, sagacity, 
and unyielding patriotism, and I employed him to keep a watch out for 
contraband goods. On Saturday evening he discovered the 'Eugenia' 
loading with arms, blankets, linen, etc., for Hartlepool, or Grimsby. He 
then informed me that he had a brave set of men, and that he and his 
men would undertake to capture the ship that leaves England with the 
contraband articles, if he could obtain my permission. His plan was 
(after adopting some of my suggestions), to ship aboard the vessel as 
common sailors armed to the teeth, and at a suitable time, after the 
design of running the blockade had been declared by the officers in 
charge and attempted, to seize the ship's officers and crew, put them 
in irons, take command of the ship, and take her into New York. 

The scheme although desperate met my approval. I unfolded it to 
Mr. Sanford, the U. S. Minister at Brussels, and it met his. * * * 
And the captain is still firm in his determination to attempt to carry it 
out. He will immediately depart for England, and on ascertaining the 
whereabouts of the vessel into Avhich these goods will be transferred 
for the South, he and his men will endeavor to ship as sailors, and will- 
ing privatccrsiiicn if necessary. If they cannot get such berths they will 
try to secrete themselves in the ship * * * j have the honor to be, sir, 
Your obedient servant, 

J. H. Anderson, 

TT \\r TT C U. S. ConSUl. 

Hon. Vv . H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, 
Washington. 

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THE U. S. MINISTER AT BRUSSELS^ TO THE U. S. CONSUL AT' 

HAMBURG. 

U. S. Legation, Brussels, October 27, 18(31. 
Cuniidcntial. 

Dear Sir : • — I have yours of yesterday, and have telegraphed in reply : 
"I authorize him to act; write fully." Capt. Eastman will have no time 
to lose. I have had already considerable experience with those fellows. 
They have already a large stock of goods ready for shipment, and 
will probably do as they did with the last vessel, the "Fingal" steamer: 
rush the goods aboard by double sets of hands working night and day, 
and be off as quickly as possible. 

If Capt. Eastman succeeds, it is a fortune as a prize, besides the 
distinction he will acquire by it. He has sharp clever men to deal with. 

I wrote to Mr. Morse, [the U. S. Consul at London] by this mail 
and to the agent who has charge of these matters (ships), in England. 
We have t>robably lost a day by telegraphing through London instead 
of here ; but the Eugenia can hardly have arrived to-day. 

I send you my check on Paris for • francs for any expenses 

you may be put to. If you find it necessary to keep a man constantly 
occupied with this business solely, employ him, and I will foot the bill. 
In haste. Yours, etc., 

H. S. Sanford. 



THE U. S. MINISTER AT BRUSSELS^ TO THE U. S. CONSUL AT 

HAMBURG. 

U. S. Legation, Brussels, November 1, 1861. 
Private. 

My Dear Sir: — Yours rec'd, just as I am starting for London. We 
are now having large shipments for the Government through Hamburg 
and Bremen. I have written to one of the government contractors, 
Boker, to write to you, and give you amount of his shipments, and con- 
signee, to save you trouble. He has 200 tons by every steamer. There 
is a lot of 70,000 coming from Germany within the next 60 days. The 
first contingent 12,000 goes via Havre. 

The only arms I have any aprpehension about are those shipped to 
England, or shipped to W. India ports. 

I have already written to Capt. Eastman. He will find me in Lon- 
don, Sunday and Monday, and perhaps longer. It will be useless for 
him to come over save to carry out his original plan, which is feasible. 

In haste, truly yours, 

H. S. Sanford. 
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THE U. S. MINISTER AT BRUSSELS, TO THE U. S. CONSUL AT 

HAMBURG. 

United States Legation. 
Brussels, November 15, LSGl. 
Dear Sir : — I saw Capt. Eastman' in London, and was much 
pleased witli him, and cut out work for him to do immediately. Un- 
fortunately he arrived too late to take the part he proposed. The crew 
of the steamer was completed the day of his arrival, and she sailed with 
a very valuable cargo. I hope for better luck later * * * 

If you have occasion to employ any man [to watch shipments], it 
had better be some one who knows all about shipping and the seas. 

Truly yours, 

H. S. Sanford. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg. 



DISPATCH FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 

Department of State, 
Washington, December 10, 18G1. 
To J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

Consul of the United States at Hamburg. 
Sir: — Your dispatch of October 27th. has just now been received. 
Your vigilance in regard to the movements of the insurgents for pur- 
chasing and shipping arms and other equipments at Hamburg is highly 
appreciated. 

I transmit to-day a copy of your communication to the Secretary of 
War, with an inquiry whether his department has any such agents in 
Hamburg as has been I think falsely pretended to you. 

Your account of the disposition, zeal and resolution of Captain East- 
man, is exceedingly interesting and honorable to him. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 

William H. Seward. 

1 In 1861 Capt. Eastman was a fine looking', energetic man about 28 
years old. His beautiful, intelligent young wife, Mrs. Jennie Harwood 
Eastman, accompanied him in all his voyages round the world. I am 
informed by Mrs. Emelie Wells, of Hollowell. Me., wife of Capt. C. H. 
Wells, whom I knew in Hamburg, that Capt. E. G. Eastman was born in 
Hollowell, in 1833, was U. S. Consul at Cork, and later at Glasgow, that 
he was a fine man, that about 187i» he settled in Chicago as a banker, 
that he died in Chicago December 22, 1872, that his family then returned 
to Hollowell, where his lovely widow, Mrs. Jennie Harwood Eastman, 
married a wealthy resident of Montreal, named Richardson, that some years 
later Mr. Richardson died, and Mrs. Richardson then accompanied her 
married daughter to Winnipeg, where she now resides. 

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CAPT. EDWIN G. EASTMAN TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

QuEENSTOWN, CoRK, January 19, 1863. 
James H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg. 
Dear Sir: — I have just received your letter of October 15th with 
a copy of Mr. Seward's enclosed. It went to Bath, Me., and was ad- 
vertised in the papers, and then forwarded here. My postoffice address 
was Hallowell, Me. I thank you for the interest you have taken in 
my welfare. Through your introduction of me to Mr. Sanford, I got 
this place, for which I shall always be grateful to you.^ After leaving 
Hamburg, I took a steamer home, as I presume you are aware. Then 
I built a fine large ship, and named her the Jennie Eastman, and was 
about ready to sail, when I was informed of my appointment as U. S. 
Consul at Cork. I put another man in the ship, and here I am, waiting 
for my exequatur, which I hope to receive in a few days. Write and 
tell me how you are getting along in Hamburg, and if there are any 
"Secesh" there now. When on your way home be sure to call at Queens- 
town, as we should be most happy to see you and your wife over here. 
The prospect at home looks better now than for some time. 
I am respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

Edwin G. Eastman. 



virgil d. anderson to james ti. anderson. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. i86i. 

Dear Brother : — I have but a word to say in mother's letter. 
We eleetcd Wm. F. Harvey, sheriff, and for the last fotir or five 
weeks he has been very sick with typhoid fever. Part of the 
time has not been expected to live, btit now seems to be getting 
l)etter and the doctors have more hopes of him. It would be 
hard on us to lose him as the locofocos have the coroner, in con- 
sequence of our having two candidates. Our candidate for cor- 
oner declined running, but not in time, some of the tickets hav- 
ing already been sent out. So some voted for him, and some 
for another in his place on our ticket. 

We have no news, local or otherwise at present. Judge 
Bowen expects an answer to his letter. Mother has been quite 
sick, but is better now. She wrote part of her letter in bed. but 

^ It was my lettei-.s to the Secretary of State that secured him the 
place I think. 

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is sitting- up now. I suppose by this time you are having very 
cold weather. Yours affectionately, 

V. D. Anderson. 

P. S. — Will the seizure of the Confederate Commissioners, 
Mason and Slidell, aboard the "Trent," by Capt. Wilkes of the 
U. S. Navy, on the 8th of this month, lead to war with England? 

V. D. A. 



Department of State, 
Washington, Novcmljor 23, 18G1. 

James H. Anderson, Esq., 

United States Consul, Hamburg. 
Sir : — It has been stated that during the Crimean War an EngHsh 
steam cutter was constantly stationed before the port of Hamburg, and 
that no neutral European vessel was permitted to enter or leave the port 
without being first examined for contraband goods. I will thank you to 
ascertain whether there is any foundation for this statement cither to a 
full extent or in a limited form. 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 

F. W. Sew.vri), 

Assistant Secretarx. 



United States Consulate, 

Hamburg, Decemlier 14, 18G1. 

Sir : — Your note of the 23d ult. has been received. You say, 'It 
has been stated that during the Crimean War an English steam cutter 
was constantly stationed before the port of Hamburg, and that no neu- 
tral European vessel was permitted to enter or leave the port without 
being first examined for contraband goods.' I have made diligent in- 
quiry of such persons as would likely possess information on this subject, 
and the statement has not been corroborated in a single instance. The 
Hamburg merchants were in the habit of furnishing saltpeter to Russia 
during the war, and England threatened only to do what your informant 
says was done. The concurrent testimony of those to whom I have 
spoken in regard to this matter is to the effect that the information im- 
parted to you is incorrect. 

A very able lawyer of this city, of the liberal scliool, has furnished 
me llie pamplilet her<:with enclosed, which lie thinks contains mucli Inter- 
national Law that may be useful at the present time. It is an account 
of a demand on Hamburg by England, during the last century, for the 
surrender of four Irisii rebels, and of their delivery up, and contains 

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the French view of the question, and a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte, 
etc. A proper translation would no doubt be serviceable to you, and 
would be forwarded were the necessity for the same immediately, less 
urgent. I expect to have within a week some valuable information^ 
touching the high-handed practices of England in carrying out her favor- 
ite doctrine of "the right of search and seizure." 

I have the honor to be, sir, Your obedient servant, 

James H. Anderson, 

U. S. Constil. 
Hon. F. W. Sczvard, 

Assistant Secretary of State, Washington. 



mrs. thomas j. anderson to mr. and mrs. james ei. anderson. 

Marion^ Ohio, Nov. 24, 1861. 

My dear Son and Daughter : — I am indebted to you both 
for very interesting letters which we receive regularly. You 
cannot conceive how gratifying they are. * * * I see you 
are enjoying the gay season. Levees, receptions, dinner parties, 
and soirees, are no doubt pleasant and in a certain sense profit- 
able, but I don't like the prominence given wine, although I 
know it is common on such occasions in all European countries. 
Its effects cannot be otherwise than detrimental, especially to 
persons of highly nervous temperaments. * * * Our own 
observation and the testimony of others should guide us in this 
matter. 

This is a dreary Sabbath. Our first snow fell last night, and 
this morning it is about two inches deep. The health of the 
place is not so good as it has been. Typhoid fever is prevailing 
to some extent. We fear it will become epidemic. Mrs. Heff- 
ner, the gun-smith's wife, and Mr. Sutton, C. B. Mann's son- 
m-law, both died of it. Mr. Mitchell, and the two Mr. Harveys 
are lying dangerously ill. 

Monday. Yoti must excuse this writing. I have not been 
well since Saturday, when I had a chill, which was succeeded by 
fever and a sore throat. I am writing lying down. Mrs. Ollie 

1 This information and mucli other was duly forwarded to the Sec- 
retary of State during the Mason-Slidell imbroglio; all of which is now on 
file in the Department of State. 

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Phillips has a son. She was seized with a chill, and is now- 
very sick. 

Little Low. Hood met with a serious accident. He went intO' 
the stable and the horse kicked him, broke his collar-bone, 
cracked his skull, and strange to say he walked to the house 
alone. The doctor removed a piece of the skull as large as half 
of the palm of your hand, and then put the scalp over the spot 
again. It occurred on Saturday, and to-day he seems to be doing 
well. It is passing strange that you do not get the papers. We 
mail them every week. We have been sending of late through 
the U. S. Dispatch Agency. Are they properly addressed? 

Tuesday. I am somewhat better this morning and able to 
sit up. I was at Mrs. Wildbahn's on Friday last, saw Mrs. S. 
M. Worth of Wyandot county, and spent an agreeable evening. 
Mrs. Worth often sees Mrs. Taylor,^ and Mrs. Fowler,^ and 
says they are quite well. 

The Third Ohio, now in \'irginia, has been ordered to Ken- 
tucky. This is John Beatty's regiment. The Fourth, "ours", 
is expecting orders to march on Winchester, and then we may 
expect bloody work. James Harper, the civil engineer, who^ 
married Libbie Durfee,- had his hand shot off at the battle of 
Belmont,^ Mo. 

Last night I had a dream. I dreamt that you had all re- 
turned, that Cora came to my bedside with little Alary who was 
chattering as usual, but who looked very pale. I was very glad 
lO see you all, but felt a sort of secret indefinable mortification 
that James had not remained at his post, as nothing meritorious 
or praiseworthy is now ascribed to any man who does not mani- 
fest a willingness to serve his country. But this is only stuff 
and nonsense such as dreams are made of. Mrs. Worth, Mrs. 
Wildbahn, Mrs. Hood, Mrs. Jane S. Wilhams, Mrs. Dunlap, 
Mrs. Henry C. Godman, Mrs. Princie Copeland, and others, send" 
much love. Kiss little Mary for me. 

Your affectionate mother. 

V Sister.s of Mr.';. James H. Anderson. 

- Daughter of ex-sheriff Jo. Durfee, late of Marion. 

" Belmont, the Confederate camp, with all its supplies, ammunition, 
and baggag-e, was fired and destroyed l)y Union troops under Gen. Grant, 
November 7, 18i!l. 

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thomas j. anderson to james ii. anderson. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1861. 

My dear Son : — * * * There is a great deal of sickness 
— typhoid fever — in our town and county. Our sheriff elect, 
Wm. F. Harvey, has been sick with it since shortly after the 
election. He is now very low. We should be sorrv to lose him 
for he is a good loyal man. Thomas Harvey our county Com- 
missioner, brother of William, is also very low with the same 
fever. J. M. Mitchell, of E. Center street, who used to clerk for 
Tom. Search, (and who lives in the double house just across 
the street, opposite our residence, which is also occupied by S. 
A. Griswold,) is very low with the same fever. As yet there 
have not been many deaths. 

Mr. John Hood's second son, Walter L. Hood, a mere child, 
had his skull fractured last Saturday by a kick from a horse. A 
piece of the skull bone about the size of a silver dollar was re- 
moved, exposing the brain, but the membrane remains unbroken. 
He- retains his senses perfectly, and there is hope of his recovery. 
I went to see him this morning.^ 

Some time ago I wrote you in regard to the two notes you 
received of Sanford Wilson, as collateral, and which you supposed 
were in judgment on the docket of Col. W. T. Wilson, J. P., of 
Upper Sandusky, O. I informed you that they were not in 
judgment as I had examined the docket myself, and Col. Wil- 
son wjio is now in the army, denies having received them. San- 
ford Wilson says that after you arc paid, that he will be entitled 
to about one half of the proceeds of the notes. So you will 
]ilease send me the original notes if in your possession, or in 
default thereof, duly certified copies of the same, on which I can 
bring suit. The makers of the notes are . 

Clark wants to do some ditching on the Deal Farm, luit I 
will not give my consent unless it lie vour wish. I did consent 
lo let hini put a new roof on the house as it leaked. Are you 



1 "Little Low. Hood," son of Senator Hood, appeared to recover from 
tins frightful accident, but finally became insane and died in the madhouse 
— the Columbus Hospital for the Insane, March 22, 1901. He was the last 
'Of the family; his name was Walter Lowrie Hood. 

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all learning" to talk C German? You say Mary speaks it very 
well. Then you should ])oth learn to do the same. 

The affairs of our country are briohtening. We expect our 
naval and land forces to take the whole of the southern sea 
coast. The taking of Mason and Slidell was a stroke not much 
relished by the Rebels. We have plenty of money without going 
abroad for it. Our bonds sell well at home. John Ault is the 
agent in Marion, for the sale of U. S. bonds bearing 7 -^\ per 
cent, interest. Do you want some of them? Let me know. 

Your father, 

T. J. A. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1861. 

My dear Son : — Thos. Harvey, one of our county commis- 
sioners, died last Saturday, of typhoid fever, and Wm. F. Har- 
vey, our sheriff elect, is very low with the same, and has been 
since the 15th of October. What turn it will take is hard to 
tell, but we hope for the better. The doctor thinks his symptoms 
are more favorable. 

Old Mr. John B. Salmon ^ died on Saturday last of a stroke 
of paralysis. Mitchell is still low with typhoid fever. Amer- 
ican aft'airs are brightening, and the rebellion, in the opinion of 
many, must soon begin "to grow small by degrees and beauti- 
fully less." My nephew F. M. Anderson, leaves here tomorrow 
to live in Warsaw, Ind. He has taken this step at the request 
of Dr. J. H. Carpenter. His brother Thos. J. Anderson, Jr., 
has gone to the war. He is in the 12th Ind. reg. now on the 
Potomac, in Md. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

^Mr. Salmon, a leading chair and cabinet maker, was born in Easton, 
Pa.. May 18, 1788, and moved to Marion with his family in 1825. His 
daughter Mrs. Camelia Robbing, now (1903) living- in Marion, who had some 
literary pretensions in the forties, and early fifties, was born in Franklinton, 
(now Columbus,) C, Aug. 2, 1823, and married William Robbins, a lawyer, 
who was once elected prosecuting attorney of Marion county. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 8th, 1861. 

Dear Son : — 'Tis the day of rest, fit time to commune with 
•those we love ; 'tis beautiful, lovely weather, soft and balmy as 
May. Is it a freak of fancy or are we indeed separated so 
widely? From this query spring "thoughts tender and tinged 
with sadness, but not with gloom." "And side by side with these 
lie truths that foreshadow an eternity of light and love." Pain- 
fully pleasing memories "pass in review before me, and thought 
follows thought, and emotion, emotion, in swift succession." I 
travel backward a few years, and through the mind's eye view 
the weird, desolate past. "I gaze on one around whose brow," 
nine years ago last November, "orange blossoms were entwined, 
but who in a few short months meekly folded her hands, and 
closed her eyes, and slept in Jesus." This fair vision, with whom 
the daintiest sunbeams played, "left as a heritage, a fragrant 
and hallowed memory. And now I think and I thank God for 
the thought, that the grave cannot forever hide" so much grace 
and loveliness, "for at the touch of the great Life Giver the seal 
shall be removed," and the eternal spring-tide "shall set in." 
Orrel shall live forever. 

And dear Clay. "How glorious the sunset that crowns such 
a life. How beautiful the ivy that clings around time so well 
spent. A pleasing and glorious thought that this corruption 
shall put on incorruption, this mortal, immortality." I would 
not call him back. I would not call them back. No, no ! 

"Over the river they beckon me, 

Loved ones who've crossed to the other side; 
The gleam of their snowy robes I see, 

But their voices are lost in the dashing tide." 

Dec. loth. Two companies of soldiers left here this morn- 
ing, one of which was German. They will remain in Camp 
Simon Kenton, at Kenton, until further orders. Charley Tillot- 
son left here this morning for Mansfield, where he will join 
Sherman's Brigade,^ which leaves tomorrow for Kentucky. I 

1 I'liis brigade, raised in the fall of 1861 by Hon. John Sherman, went 
through the whole war. 

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hope we shall have a pleasant winter pn account of our poor 
soldiers. 

John D. Brown ^ is here spending a few days with his wife, 
who is too delicate to stand the winds of Chicago. 

Your affectionate mother. 



TITOATAS J. ANDKRSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. lo, 1861. 

My dear Son : — We had two companies of soldiers leave 
here this morning for Camp Simon Kenton. They are of the 
826. reg. O. Y. I., of which James Cantwell is colonel, B. R. 
Durfee, lieutenant colonel, and J. S. Rohinson, major. AVe have 
furnished a great many soldiers, probably 800. John J. Wil- 
liams is major of the 64th regiment, (now in camp at Alans- 
tield. ) of Sherman's Brigade ; it was raised by Senator John 
Sherman. James Harper, late civil engineer on the B. & I. R. 
R., and son-in-law of Mrs. Jo. Durfee, is a captain in one of 
the Iowa regiments that suft'ered so severely in the recent battle 
of Belmont, Mo. Every captain in the regiment was killed ex- 
cept Harper, whose left hand was shot oft'. And he is going in 
again as soon as he gets well. Little Jo. Durfee, his wife's 
brother, was a soldier in his company, but came out of the fight 
without being hurt. 

Our 4th C)hio, is still at Romney, Ya., where we have about 
4500 troops. We daily expect a hard fight between these, and 
the Rebel force at Winchester. 40 miles distant. Romney, you 
are aware is the county seat of Hampshire county, (where I was 
born), and is 20 miles from Cumberland, Md. The old National 
Road ran through Cumlierland, which was somewhat famous 
when that was the great thoroughfare of the country. Our old 
home, the Anderson Bottom, on the Potomac, or the North 
Branch of the Potomac, is just 5 miles from Cumberland, on 
the Va., side of the river, and there I was born, and my father, 



1 Brown, though eccentric, was a man of ability and great energy. 
His two sisters were poets, and his father "William Brown — an able mathe- 
matician — was chief civil engineer of the M. R. & L. E. Railroad Company, 
many years. 

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and grandfather ; and my great-grandfather, Wilham Ander- 
son, was its first settler. * * * Never yield an inch to a 
Rebel or Secessionist, nor fail to watch them on the other side 
of the water, for they are trying to poison the minds of the peo- 
ple of Germany. has moved to , near his farm. 

His departure is no loss to this place. 

Settled witli C. Brady, and took his note. With all his 
wealth he is always poor. It is now 3 p. m. Henderson Har- 
vey just came to town for something for his brother William. 
He says his brother is delerious all the time, and has very little 
strength left. This is the 45th day of his sickness. He will 

not probably survive till tomorrow. Then that Corbin,. 

of Waldo, whom the elected, will be our sheriit till next 

fall. Give my love to Princess, and tell little Mary that grand- 
father would like to see her. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — Our farmers cannot get over $2 to $2.25 live weight 
for fat hogs, and good beef sells per quarter at $2 to $3 per cwt. 
Patten & W'allace are supposed to be doing a good and safe 
banking business. I will see W. R. Gooding, and H. Thomas, 
and Robert Dunt, as you suggest. T. J. A. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1861. 

Dear Son : — * * * John Patten ^ requested me to say 
to you that he would not be able to pay much over half of his 
note when due, and wishes indulgence on the balance. I told 
him vou would not distress him. 

I paid John Hickman for making 3000 rails for the Deal Farm 
$42.00, and the tenant hauls and puts them in fence. It was 
the best I could do. W. Hedges tells me that he pays $3.50 per 
hundred for the rails he puts on your 400 acre farm. 

John Hood is our State senator elect, and John Bartram our 
representative, both Union men, nominated and elected by Re- 

1 John Patten, a bi'other of Richard and Orren was an upright, indus- 
trious, economical farmer, whose debt was contracted in buying the home 
farm, near Prospect. 

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publicans and Union Democrats. There are only a few of the 
latter. R G has ([uit keeping tavern, and is now run- 
ning a saloon. It is a hard hole. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — 1 loaned I'eyton Hord $1400.00; my own money, not 
vours. Wm. l'\ Harvev, our sheriff elect, is dead. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1861. 

Dear Son: — Yours of the i6th ult. was duly received. I 
am greatly indebted to you for your very kind and satisfactory 
letters. News we have, very sad news. Ambrose Mouser, the 
spirited, gifted, educated young man, of whose patriotic and 
thrillingly eloquent speech on the steps of the church the day 
before he left for the theater of war I have already written you, 
is no more. Tlie sentiments he uttered on that occasion are still 
fresh in the minds (if all who heard him. Patriotic and self- 
sacrificing, he willingly left the classic halls of the ITiiversity, 
although a few short months would have brought him the cov- 
eted honors conferred on graduation. 

Well, to the point. ( )n Monday of last week a telegram from 
the hospital chaplain in Cuml)erland, announced that Ambrose 
was dangerously sick. Mis father Mr. Isaac Mouser. immedi- 
ately started, and arrived about twelve hours before he died. 
Freely ofTering up his young life for his countrv. he died in 
the triumphs of faith. 1 )isease, typhoid fever. He was brought 
home in a wooden coffin, lined with tin, the l)est that could be 
procured in that enlightened ( ? ) country. There is a great 
amount of sickness in our army. There are now nearlv five 
hundred sick soldiers in the hospital at Cumberland ; it is kept 
quiet however. It is kept out of print lest the Rebels should 
find it out. We only learned it through Mr. Mouser, and a 
minister here who accompanied him. We fear many more of 
our braves will share the fate of poor Ambrose Mouser. 

I presume you are impatient at the delay of our army to move 
on the Rebels. Some feel so here. The more knowing ones do 

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not. l*^or my part I feel that every hour of delay weakens the 
enemy, and stren^i^thens us. We are drilhng our men and manu- 
facturing arms, whilst the Rebels have every man in the field, 
and all their arms, stolen or otherwise. Confederate scrip is 
almost worthless ; and the Union sentiment that the Rebels have 
to contend with is stronger than the disunion sentiment at the 
north. Indeed I think that traitorousness in the loyal states is 
nearly played out. It seems to l)e here. 

Our armies are quite successful of late ; ap]K'ar to sweep 
everything before them. We have taken manv hundred prisoners 
in Mo., and immense (piantities of army stores. In southern 
Ky., and western Va., and in a skirmish on the Potomac we have 
been successful. Our licet has also done well. lUit we are look- 
ing for an awful battle on the Mississippi shortly. You can't 
conceive of the war pre])arations at St. Louis, Cairo, and at other 
places. Through this place alone, a great many cannon and 
oilmr munitions of war have passed. ''' * * 

Hon. John J. Williams ^ is an officer in the army. There is 
now but little business here for lawyers. Judge Bowen, S. H. 
Bartram, H. T. Van Fleet, and A. Osborn have a clear coast. 
"Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole 
duty of man. Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1861. 

Dear Princie: — * * * I am just informed that Rev. 
H. B. Fry - has been appointed chaplain of the Eighty Second. 



^ John J. Williams a graduate of Franklin (O,) college, came to Marion 
as principal of the Marion Academy in 1839, afterwards practiced law for 
many yoar.s. and was a member of the State Senate one term. On Dec. 18, 
1861, he was commissioned major of the 64th O. "V. I., was promoted to 
lieutenant -colonel, and resigned Aug. 10, 1862. He did not take kindly to 
teaching, nor to tVie law. nor was he a shining success as an army officer, 
but his dignity rarely forsook him. His first wife, Miss Minerva Davis, a 
sister of Mrs. James H. Godman, was in 1840, considered the handsomest girl 
in Marion. His other wives were, 2d Amanda Wilson, 3d Helen R. Jones. 
He was born near Stcubcnville. O., Aug. 23, 1818, and died in Marion, May 
18, 1893. 

-Henry 13. Fry. D. D. (an intimate friend of mine), preached several 
years in Marion. 1S;)8-GS. and after the war in ITi)per Sandusky. He was a 

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This is the regiment that Cantvvell, Durfec, and Robinson, arq 
recruiting. Capt. Nicholas Jerolaman resigned liis position in 
Va., came home, recruited another company, (mostly in Union 
•county,) was elected captain, and joined the 82d. 

You kindly offer your blankets to our poor suft'ering soldiers. 
I shall assuredly avail myself of the privilege of contributing 
them when another call is made. I gave what I could spare be- 
fore, and almost every other person did the same. Mr. Ander- 
son's office was used as a depository, from which several large 
boxes of blankets, etc., were sent to our troops. All that were 
donated were not called for, but no doubt will be before spring. 

Princie, I know you love your country, but you would love 
it more than ever if you were here to see the patriotic devotion 
of the people, and the generous outpouring of material aid to 
uphold the government. The ladies of Marion have a Soldiers' 
Aid Society, which has made and forwarded to the soldiers, 
flannel shirts, drawers, socks, mittens, and many other necessary 
articles. To liquidate the debt incurred for materials purchased, 
the young ladies prepared a supper for the public, and it was 
liberally patronized, considering the number of our citizens away 
from home. They made just enough, and were very glad of it. 

The funeral sermon over the remains of poor Ambrose 
Mquser was preached last sabbath. The audience was the largest 
ever seen in our church. He died on Thursday, the body reached 
here on Saturday, and was buried on Sunday. The text of the 
sermon: 'Ts it well with thee?" * * * 

Herein find a bird song for Mary. She must learn it so that 
she can repeat it to the little children. Cora wants to know what 
Santa Claus brought Mary. As this is the night for hanging up 
stockings, Cora is quite on tiptoe. * * * I pray God to have 
you in His holy keeping. 

Your affectionate mother. 



Presbyterian minister of ability and scholarship, and a gentleman by nature. 
He died at Ft. Wayne, Ind., June 16, 1902. His wife died at Joplin, Mo.; 
Frank, his only ?on, died at Salem, O., and Mrs. Effie Fry Hopkins, his only 
•daughter, at St. Louis. 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jan'y 5th, 1862. 

Dear Son : — I have written you before of our pleasant winter. 
I think this will be recorded as the mildest winter so far, since 
the landing" of the Pilgrims. The new year was ushered in on 
a beautiful day. How easily we trace the hand of God in all 
this. Our poor soldiers have suffered much less in consequence 
of the mild weather. God protect them, and defend the right, 
is my prayer. 

Your uncle John ^ just called. He sends his respects. Yes- 
terday he received a letter from his son Thomas, who is in Sharps- 
burg, Md., fifty miles below Cumberland. He says the health 
of our troops on the Potomac is very good. His captain and 
six others went across the river on a scouting expedition, were 
taken prisoners, and sent to Richmond. A short letter had been 
received from the captain who appeared to be low spirited, but 
it contained few particulars. 

Almost every one is getting impatient at the delay in the 
movement of the Army. Some conjecture one reason for it and 
some another. Some think it is because Gen. McClellan is sick 
— he is better now — some think it is to make more extensive 
preparations, and some to freeze out the Rebels. 

Yesterday Cora received a package through the post office 
enclosing Mrs. J- H. Anderson's card, and the sweetest little 
doll baby any of us ever saw. Cora wants me to thank aunt 
Princess, which I now do, and says her aunt is the best woman 
in the world except her grandma. She has named it and appro- 
priated a box for its exclusive use. It is the "cutest" thing with 
its hat on I ever saw. 

Your father is now in Columbus, from wdiich place he will 
probably write you. If you will look in upon me this Sabbath 
afternoon about the time you frequently called, you will find 
me sitting by the window, near the lounge, and all alone. Annie, 
Mary Williams, and Cora are at rehearsal, in preparation for 
the Sabbath school anniversary which occurs to-night. 

^John Ander-son, father of Capt. Thomas J. Anderson, Jr. 

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was expected to die last week of d — t — but is better 

Tiow. LUit he can't stand another attack. Poor feHow ! grog 
bas ahnost done its work on liim. I tbink- too bis finances are 
in a very poor condition. 

To-day Mr. Fry preaches bis last sermon in bis cburcb in 
Marion. He goes into tbe service as chaplain of tbc 82d regi- 
ment. Yesterday John Kitelinger of the 4tb Obio was brought 
bome a corpse. He died of a camp fever in Romney. Va. Dis- 
ease is more destructive to our soldiers tban tbe sword. Did I 

tell you tbat bas a major's commission in tbe reg;i- 

ment? He will make a dasbing- major! Don't you tbink so? 
Gov. Dennison makes too many just sucb appointments. Tbe 

regiment was in camp at , about two weeks, when it was 

ordered to , al)out 50 miles below , where it expects 

active service. 

You say you received the letter we sent you stating that "a 
paragraph from the Cincinnati Commercial," would be enclosed 
announcing tbe acceptance by tbe governor, of an army officer 
"recommended by Consul Anderson;" but tbat tbe "paragraph" 
was missing. Your fatber says he certainly enclosed it, but 
diinks tbat in opening tbe letter it fell out unol)served. Tbis 
officer bad been recommended to you by bigb government offi- 
cials, and I believe had been decorated by Victoria for services 
in tbe Crimean war. I bave forgotten tbe regiment to wbicb be 
was assigned. Tbe legislature convenes to-day. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOM.XS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES IT. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jan'y 19, 1862. 

Dear Princie: — We were very glad to receive yours of tbe 
I4tb and 15th of December, and to learn tbat vou were in better 
health. You say tbat James is kept more tban busy, and refer 
to bis zeal for our government, etc. In bis letters to me be has 
spoken of his complicated and laborious duties. I sympathize 
witb bim and would gladly relieve him of a part of tbe burden 
if I bad tbe power to do so; Ijut after all I believe it will be 

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better for his health and spirits to have a great press of business 
on his hands. Such is his constitutional make ; inactivity doesn't 
suit him. If he can only stand his extra labors, the feeling that 
he is serving his country in this her day of trial, will be compen- 
sation sufificient. We all begin to feel that we have to bear a 
part in this struggle. 

The tariff has already advanced the price of articles of com-^ 
mon consumption. Tea and sugar are much higher than they 
were. Calico and all cotton goods are fifty per cent, higher. 
The latter part of summer before the rise, I took the precaution 
to buy all the sheeting, etc., that we will need for a year or two. 

Mr. Henry Johnson ^ has been very sick of typhoid fever, 
but now it is thought that he mends slowly. Wm. Kinnear still 
lies very low. 

There was a call upon us from our pulpit to-day, and mem- 
bers of the other congregations were also notified to meet at the 
City Hall, to sew for and otherwise assist our sick soldiers now 
in hospital at Cumberland. We will send the soldiers whatever 
they may stand in need of that will contribute to their comfort. 

Jan'y 20th. I am very dull and weary having been busy all 
day, and fear I shall not be able to write anything that will in- 
terest you. You say you are so interested in my poor letters, 
that you read and reread them. This begets a strong desire in 
me to write something of real interest. But I see how it is ; it 
is perfectly natural ; we take the deepest interest in whatever is 
written by those we love. In proof of this I can add my own 
testimony. When a package of letters arrives from Washington 
we know at once where it is from, and all are breathless until 
every word has been read ; and when we find you are all safe, 
and no accident of any kind has befallen you, then we breathe 
easier, and reread each letter with the greatest pleasure. 

1 R. H. Johnson, born June IS, IS] 9, came to Marion in 1842. married 
Miss Sarah H. Reed, (born Oct. 11, 1824, daughter of James, and sister of 
James S. Reed), engaged in merchandizing, and afterwards in banking, and 
has been successful. He is an able, influential man, of high character, but 
quite modest, almost shy in his demeanor. He is now (1903), president of 
the Marion County Bank, of which his nephew, Harry True, is vice president 
and general manager. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have one child, Katherine B., 
born April 14, 1849, the wife of Mr. William B. Fisher, son of the eminent 
physician, the late Dr. T. B. Fisher, M. D., and grandson of the late Judge 
S. S. Bennett of Marion. Mrs. Sarah H. Johnson, a lady of many rare 
virtues, died August 9, 1903 — after this footnote was written. 

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We have just received two j^ood letters from James, one to 
me, and one to his father, l)oth of the 28th uU., together with 
copies of diplomatic dispatches, interesting because they give us 
something of an insight into the duties of his position. 

Jan'y 21st. I have not seen the morning paper, but Mrs. 
Jane S. Williams just ran in to tell me that a battle had been 
fought in southern Kentucky, in which the Rel)els were defeated, 
and Gen. ZoUicofifer slain.i He was a prominent man, and in 
command of the Rebel army. We are hourly expecting thrill- 
ing news from the expedition under Gen. Burnside, and from 
other detachments of the army. Our Mississippi river fleet is 
ready to attack the enemy, and awaits orders. 

How I should like to see you all ! Be of good heart ; every 
day shortens the time. How swiftly it flies. May we so im- 
prove it that at the end we shall have a seat at the right hand 
of God. Kiss little M. for me. Adieu, dear Princie. 

P. S. — Dear Son : — Since the receipt of yours, I have not 
found time to answer it. . In it you expressed a wish to be in 
America. Selfishly speaking I wish you were here, but my dear, 
if you can serve your bleeding country better where you are 
than at home, I know you are willing to make the sacrifice. Our 
government is sorely tried. Investigating Committees detect 
frauds in almost every contract. Contractors almost to a man 
seem to defraud the government. This calls for -most stringent 
measures. There is a bill now before Congress to punish with 
death all frauds on the government. It is the only measure that 
will keep the nation from bankruptcy. My next letter will be 

*o y°"- Your afifectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSOX TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jan'y 20, 1862. 
My dear Son: — Your letter of the ist inst. came duly to 
hand, together with copies of official dispatches that I read with 

1 Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer of Tenn., was defeated and slain by Union 
troops under Gen. Thomas at the battle of Mill Springs, Ky.. January 19, 
1S62. Gen. G. B. Crittpn<lcn was in- chief command of the Confederates, but 
tliey were led by ZollicofTcr. who fell fig-liting. 

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satisfaction. I am t^lad to hear that you are discharging your 
official duties to the entire satisfaction of the government. I 
received the London American, containing the speech of George 
Francis Train. ■■' * * We have glorious news from our army 
in Kentucky. We have gained a great victory.^ The Rebel 
army was defeated and routed, and Cienerals Zollicoffer and Pey- 
ton were left dead on the field. * * "^^ The Court of Com- 
mon Pleas is now in session. Our friend Judge Wm. Law- 
rence - is holding court and looking well. 

I am in the fur trade as usual, l)ut competition runs very 
liigh. My men are scouring the country far and near. Last 
night I sustained a heavy loss by theft. * * * 

Your father, 

T. T- Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES IT. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio. Feb. 2, 1862. 

Dear Son : — This is a beautiful Sa])])ath afternoon. We have 
not yet had any weather that we could call cold, no real freezing 
weather. We have had a good supply of rain, but little snow, none 
for sleighing. We still have much sickness of the most tedious 
and discouragiing character. Mr. R. FF Johnson still lies dan- 
gerously sick. Both he and Christ, (iruber have been very sick 
for six weeks. Mrs. Dunlap got up just in time to take care 
of her son John,-' who is down again. Alary and James Wil- 
liams are sick ; also John Zuck, old Mrs. William Bain,-* old 

' Battle of Mill Springs. Ky., January 19, 1862. Gen. Geo. B. Crittenden, 
son of Hon. John J. Crittenden, commanding 5,000 Confederates, was defeated 
by Gen. Thomas and 8.000 ITnion soldiers. The insurgents were repulsed by 
an Ohio regiment, with a loss of 190 killed. 60 wounded, and 89 prisoners, 
['nion loss 38 killed, 11)4 wounded. 

- "A Memorial and Biographical Sketch of Hon. William Lawrence, by 
Hon. James H. Anderson. I^L. B.," was read liy the author at the Annual 
Meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association, held at Put-in-Bay. July 11, 12 
and 1.3, 1899, and will be found in Volume XX. i)ul)Iis!ied liy the Association, 
pp. 236-244. 

■' Son of Rev. John A. Dunlap, who occupied tlie Presbyterian pulpit 
in Marion in 1837-41. 

•iWilliam Bain, born in Dundee. Scotland, Sept. 2, 1789, died at Marion, 
O., Oct. 23, 1856. His wife Mary Lane, born Dec. 4, 1798, died at Marion, 
Aug. IS. 1875. 

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Mrs. John Elder, and others. Airs. John W. Bain is tcrrihly 
afflicted with sometliinj.;- hke erysipelas. Her hands are swollen 
to their utmost tension, hroken out, and so painful she can do 
nothing hut walk the floor day and night suffering very much. 

I helieve I have not heard of the landing of the munitions 
of war you were instrumental in sending. Has anything befallen 
them, or is the government keeping it a secret as a prudential 
measure? I saw in the ( ). S. Journal, a paragraph written by 
a Hamburg correspondent of a London paper — the Post I 
think — which stated that the U. S. Government had made heavy 
l>urchases in \'ienna, and sent them by special train through 
Berlin to Hamburg, thence shipping them to New York in a 
chartered vessel which was not permitted to stop at Southamp- 
ton, using great caution and secrecy. 1 ho]ie they have not fallen 
into the clutches of the pirate Sumter. The correspondent who 
seemed friendly, said it was kept a secret until the steamer was 
ploughing her wav across the deep. But T thought its pulilica- 
tion might endanger the next shipment. Sailing under the Ham- 
burg flag however ought to bring them safelv over. 

Tell Princie 1 confiscated her blankets for the use of the hos- 
pital at Cumberland, Md. Cantwell, Durfee, Robinson, and Fry, 
with their regiment have been ordered to the seat of war. We 
live in expectation of hearing startling news. 

But I sec that this war is having a hardening effect on us. 
Our feelings have been wrought upon so often that we do not 
experience that dreadful distress on hearing of the death of our 
brave men we did at first. Why when I first heard of Gen. 
Lyon's death, I dropped down as if I had been sliot. Now death 
does not shock me so. But without regard to this, the bloodiest 
work is yet Ijefore us in ni}- judgment. 

Dear Son: — Afay the days passed in a foreign land in your 
•country's service, be fraught with much that is [pleasant despite 
the labors and trials attendant on such a post. Mav (lod give 
you mental and ])h\sical strength to perform vour whole duty, 
for we know without great labor no great good wa.? ever at- 
tained. * * * Be of good cheer. True vou are among '^tran- 
;gers but they often prove the? best of friends. 

Your afl^ectionate mother. 
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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1862. 

Dear Son : — '■' * * Money, that is currency, appears to 
be plenty, but gold and silver are not, as the banks have sus- 
pended specie payment. We can only get enough silver coin 
for change. Our legislature has passed an act to legalize the 
suspension of specie payment till the eastern banks resume. But 
our bank notes are good, and now answer all purposes in busi- 
ness transactions. The Bank of Marion, and the other banks are 
doing a good and I think a safe business. 

As our sheriff elect, W. F. Harvey is dead, Corbin the cor- 
oner, will act as sheriff until another election. He is a Waldo 
iocofoco. Ex-sheriff David Epler has returned to his large farm, 
which I as Master Commissioner, now have an order from Court 
to sell. It will be appraised this week, and advertised next. I 
am sorry for David. 

• W. P. Dumble, editor of the Marion County Republican, re- 
quests me to say that he wishes you to favor him with a good 
letter for publication. If you can do so without violating any 
rule of the Department of State, you may as well accommodate 
liim, Init not otherwise. A man holding a diplomatic and con- 
sular position cannot be too discreet. 

To-day I mail you a Marion Republican, containing local 

news : and a description of the real property of Tom. S -—^ 

which I am offering for sale as Master Commissioner. ^ I am 
sorry for Tom. Thos. J. Anderson, Jr., now in the army, is in 
Md., and well. Eugene and Charles Tillotson are in Ky., near 
Bowling Green. Keep track of the 64th Ohio, and you will know 
where to find the Tillotson boys. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



1 Judge Thomas J. Anderson was master commissioner of the Court of 
Common Pleas for Marion Co., O., for several terms of three years each. 
A master commissioner is an officer of tlie court to wliom cases, in cliancery 
are referred to ascertain tlie facts and report tlie same to tlie court together 
with finding's under tlie law. Many intricate questions come before masters, 
who take testimony, hear arguments, and apply the law. A master may 
administer oaths, sell property by order of court, and perform otlier functions. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Feb'y 15, 1862. 

Dear Princte : — Annie and I received your kind letters of 
the nth uU. We also received a very good letter from James, 
together with documents, and copies of dispatches greatly to his 
credit. He must not think that what I have written touching 
his vigilance, or his endeavors to cripple the enterprises of Amer- 
ican traitors in Europe, in any sense a condemnation of his course. 
I knew his intentions were creditable, and patriotic, and I only 
meant to hint at caution, lest some word or deed of his might be 
construed by over-sensitive foreign governments into an offense. 
A mother's solicitude must be my apology. 

I think it very kind in him, and liberal on the part of the 
Hamburg American Steamship Co., that Hon. Carl Schurz ^ 



1 1 wrote Mr. Godeffroy, the president of the Hamburg-American Steam 
Ship Company a letter, asking him to give Mr. Schurz and family a free 
passage from Hamburg to New York, and received the following note in 
answer to my application: 

"August Bolten, 

Schiffsmakhr. 
James H. Aiidcrsoii. Esq., Hamburg, 10th Jan'y 1862. 

United States Consul, 

Hamburg. 
Dear Sir: — The object of the present is to inform you that I am in- 
structed by Mr. Godeffroy to communicate to you that the Hamburg- Ameri- 
can Company will have much pleasure in offering a free pas.sage not only 
to Mr. Schurz, but also to his family and servants. 
I am. Dear Sir, 

Your very obedient servant, 

August Bolten, 

Agent." 
It may be proper to add by way of explanation, that in the month of 
March 1861, Mr. Schurz was appointed by President Lincoln, envoy extra- 
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain. While he was in Madrid his 
charming wife, who belonged to a wealthy family, remained in Hamburg 
where she was born. Mr. Schurz finding a residence in Madrid monotonous, 
if not positively unpleasant, finally decided in the latter part of the year 
1861 to return to the United States and enter the military service. He natur- 
ally desired to first visit the Fatherland, and his family at Hamburg. How to 
do this was the question, as he had been involved in the rising in '4S-'49, 
was known as "a forty-eighter," was branded as a traitor, as "the man who 
released Kinkel," and a price was on his head. Finally through the inter- 
vention of the Prussian minister at Madrid, he was given by the Iron Chan- 
cellor Bismarck, tacit permission to pass through Prussia to Hamburg, and 
to embark thence to the United States. Mr. Schurz remained about two 
months in Hamburg, where I often saw him. During his stay in that city, 
to the surprise of the public, he was invited to visit Bismarck at Berlin. 

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and famil}- were supplied with a free passage to New Yori-c. I 
noticed their arrival. 

I forget whether I told you in my last about ( iertrude Turney 
Messenger's death. Well, she and her husband were on their 
way home from Africa, and their vessel encountered a dreadful 
storm at sea, which lasted several days, increasing in violence 
all the time. When within a day and a half of New York, the 
fury of the gale was such that the officers and crew gave up all 
hope. The captain came into the cabin and told the passengers 
he expected the ship to go down, and they all went to shaking 
hands and bidding each other farewell. And poor Gertrude ^ 
took a spasm and died. She had been very sick, and besides was 
in a delicate condition. The storm soon abated, and the vessel 
arrived safely in port. Her husband who was exceedingly sick, 
told his friends to bury Gertrude in New York, after notifying 
her Marion relatives, but the latter requested the remains sent 
here, where they arrived yesterday, and will lie buried to-day. 
Annie is now at Mr. Weaver A. Turney's, her brother's residence. 
'Tis 2 o'clock Sabbath afternoon. The funeral procession accom- 
panying Gertrude's remains just entered the Episcopal church. 
Although it is just across the way, I cannot go out, for Cora is 
very ill and has been for three days. She is threatened with 
lung fever. 

She wants me to tell Mary that she received through the 
postoffice yesterday two valentines ; one from Iowa, and the other 
from Indiana, and one paper called The Little Pilgrim, edited 
by Grace Greenwood. 

We are in receipt of much glorious news from our army. 
To-day we are very anxious to hear from Fort Donelson,- on 

His photographs, pictures of "the man who released Kinker' were now 
everywhere publicly displayed. Of the splendid career of Mr. Schui'z after 
his return to the United States, and of his lofty attitude on poiiucal and 
economic questions, it is unnecessary here to speak. 

1 Gertrude, a beautiful woman and a lovely character, died at sea near 
New York. Jan'y 29, 1862, when 28 yeai's, 10 months, and 13 days old. Her 
husband Rev. H. H. Messenger, was three years a missionary on the West 
Coast of Africa, and his wife was the first white woman to visit Liberia. 
After her death he became rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Marion, 
1863-6, and later was called to Texas. 

2 An important Confederate fort on the Cumbei'land. After the capture 
of Fort Henry, on the Tennessee, Feb. 6, 1862, Gen. Grant moved his forces 
and attacked Fort Donelson. Feb. 16. 1862 Gen. Buckner surrendered to 
Gen. Grant tlic fcirt, 1.5.000 pi-isoners of war. etc.. etc. 

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the Cumlxniand river, where a fight is going on, l)ut we can get 
no dispatches. 

Fell'}- 17th. We liave reports up to Saturday noon, (iun- 
hoats, and troojjs. still l)esieging the fort, and have ca]:)tured 
the main redciuhl, which commands the inner fortification, and 
hoisted the stars and stripes, l)ut a great battle must yet be 
fought before we get complete possession. You can"t conceive 
of the intensity of our feelings when we know that a battle is 
in progress. This one has been raging since Thursday, and for 
aught we know is still going on. 

Lizzie Tillotson is down with typhoid fever ; has been sick 
about ten days. There are few new cases in town. It is arrested 
I think, but not subdued. Mrs. John W. Rain is still quite sick 
of erysipelas. You would scarcely know her, she is so swollen 
and disfigured. Her eyes have been closed ; she can open them 
now, but is a horrid siglit. Her physicians have l)ecn applying 
copperas water to her face. Have you ever seen a homely fat 
Wyandot? She looks more like one than anything else. Poor 
girl ! I am sorrv for her. She appears more patient under afflic- 
tion than anv one 1 ever saw. I called to see her yesterday. 
She 1 wished to be kindl\- remembered to vou. Hattie Friblev - 



' Her maiden name wa.s Mary Monnett. She was Ijorn in Crawford 
Co. in 1835. She was an only child, very wealthy, and generous, and a 
member of the noted Crawford county family of that name. She was 
reared on her father's large stock farm near Bucyrus. She endowed Mon- 
nett Hall, of the O. W. F. College at Delaware, O. She graduated from the 
aforesaid Female College in 1859, M. L. A. She died at Ossawatomie, Kan., 
July 31. 1885. in a Hospital for Insane Patients. A college classmate of Mary 
Monnett. in the "Ohio Wesleyan Transcript," says: "An Ohio girl of 
twenty, with beautiful soul, attractive person and devoted piety; * * * 
of medium height; hair, dark waving and abundant; voice, low and soft; 
face, fair, lighted by large wonderful blue eyes; * * * without self- 
consciousness, and possessed in a rare degree of modesty. * * * g]^g 
was so well poised that not a trace of vanity was ever discernible. * * * 
Her aim was to assist to an education girls of limited resources. « * * 
Mary Monnett graduated in '51). Alas! that fate should have been unkind 
to the sweetest gentlest of women. She died in 1885 in a distant western 
State of a broken heart." 

- Mrs. Harriet Concklin Fribley, a lady of culture and refinement was 
born in Marion county, on her father's large stock farm March 26. 1835. Her 
father, Col. Washington W. Concklin, born Dec. 14, 1799, died in Marion, June 
18, 1886. He was reared and educated in New York City, but came to Marion 
county in 1820, and bought "the Concklin Stock Farm" of 2500 acres, at the 
land office in Delaware, C. the same year. His wife, Sophia Sweetsir, born 
near Albany. N. Y., died in Marion, Jan'y 29, 1883, at the age of 71. Mrs. 
Harriet Concklin Fribley died July 4, 1903 — since the above was written. 

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sends love. The rest join me in love to you all. Dear Princie, 
excuse this disconnected and somewhat hasty scribble. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Feb'y 17, 1862. 

Dear Son : — I often feel great concern and anxiety on your 
.account knowing something of your duties, and the great amount 
of labor^ you have to perform. * * * Your opportunities for 
improvement, particularly in the modern languages are now great, 
and if you avail yourself of them, you will on your return to 
America be much better prepared from a higher standpoint to 
•enjoy life. * * * 

Marion, as you have been informed, is "lit with gas." There 
are seventeen lights in the upper room of our church, besides 
a l^rge chandelier in the vestibule. The basement is also lighted. 
The court house, churches, business houses, and streets are all 
lighted. Center street has gas its whole length. There is a 
lamp post at each prominent corner. We do not grope our way 
as formerly. 

I hope that you and Princie are enjoying life. Health per- 
mitting, you should get a great deal of enjoyment out of life. 
It is very dull here for persons who enjoy gayety. There has 
not been a party in town this winter. All the gatherings are in 
the daytime, and for the purpose of sewing for the soldiers. 
The mite societies still meet. I h'ave never known so little visit- 

1 Note. My oppressive labors are often referred to in these letters. As 
I was the sole American representative in Hamburg — then an independent 
state, and the great commercial city of Germany — I had a great deal of 
work to do, more than I ever did before or since in the same length of time. 
I was in fact both the diplomatic and commercial representative, and my 
labors were greatly augmented by the rebellion, or Civil War. Besides dis- 
charging all the consular business, I issued and visaed passports, carried on 
the diplomatic correspondence, and performed every other duty required of 
ministers in other countries. U. S. Consuls of equal rank in Italy, Spain, 
Russia, and some other countries where ministers reside, had little to do, 
and spent their time traveling, and in other ways. It was no uncommon 
thing to have two or three hundred callers in a day at the Consulate. Every 
other country except the United States was represented by a minister and 
a consul. 

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ing clone. Business however is more aetive than you would sup- 
pose under the cireumstances. The colonel of our Third regi- 
ment Iiaving resigned on account of poor health, Lieut. Col. John 
Beatty was appointed to the vacancy, on the petition of the sol- 
diers of the regiment. This is getting up. Good-hy. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio Feh. i8, 1862. 

My dear Son : The war news which I shall give, vnu 
have probably already received. We gained a great victory at 
Roanoke Island, ^ took nearly 3,000 prisoners, and many guns 
and small arms. O. Jennings Wise, son of Henry A. Wise, late 
governor of Virginia, was killed. We also gained a great victory 
on the Tennessee, in taking Fort Henry, with all its munitions 
of war. 

And now a great Ijattle is waging at Fort Donelson, on the 
Cumberland river. C)ur forces have already surrounded the fort, 
taken a part of it, and will soon take the whole, if indeed they 
have not already done so. It is a very strong place. There 
are 18,000 Rebel troops in it. and our force under Grant num- 
bers more than 30,000. The loss on both sides has been pretty 
heavy. Neither of the Tillotson boys, nor Col. John Beatty is in 
this battle, but they are not far oft'. 

We have driven nearly all of the Rebel troops out of Mis- 
souri. Gen. Price, late governor of Missouri, will not stand to 
fight, l)ut runs away. 

Your uncle. Rev. Hiram H. Anderson was here last week. 
His two sons are in the army. David who is in Tennessee, is I 
suppose at the siege of Fort Donelson, for he was in that region 
at last accounts. James is still in Ohio, at Camp Dennison. 



^ Burnside and Gold.sborough with 31 gunboats, 14 transports, and 11,500 
troops, effected a landing- February 7, 1862, dispersed and destroyed the 
Confederate fleet, demolished the earth works, and took 2,500 prisoners. 
Roanoke Island, N. C, an important rebel stronghold, was the key to the 
rebel defenses south of Norfolk. 

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Later — Fort Donelson is ours, after severe fighting, with 
13,000 prisoners, inchiding three generals, and many heavy guns 
and field pieces, many thousands of small arms, several thousand 
horses, etc. It was a famous victory. ^ Here it is a time of 
great rejoicing among true loyal men. Hurrah for the United 
States Government ! No more on this suljject. 

Major liardy has started a store in Capt. Hardy's "old cor- 
ner," hut does not do much business. I Ijelieve I told you that 
N. M. Leatherberry had traded his farm two miles north of 
town, at the forks of the road, for the Freese House — Cy. 
Mann's old stand. We have had but little sleighing this winter. 
It now begins to look like good sugar-making-weather. Do 
you permit the tenant on the River Farm to tap the sugar-maple 
trees? '•■ * * Mr. S. H. Bartram is now in my office, and 
sends his respects to you and your family. To-day I send you 
our newspapers. Love to Princess and Mary. 

Your father, 

T. I. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMICS 11. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 3, 1862. 

Dear Son : — Yours and Princic's of the 25th of January 
came in the usual time. I am sorry she is so ill. She probably 
remains in the house too much. A daily walk in the park would 
be beneficial, or a sail on the lake — the Alster. If you are too 
busy, Mary and the governess might accompany her. I wish 
she were here. If it were not for the sea-voyage, and the 
great distance, and expense, I should feel like advising her to 
return, and stay here, and in Wyandot county till better, or for a 
few months. She would hardly remain away from you very 
long. 

' On February 16. 1862, Gen. Grant tele^aphed to Gen. Halleck: "We 
luive taken Fort Donelson, and from 12,000 to 15,000 prisoners, including 
Generals Buckner and Bushrod R. Johnson; also about 20,000 stands of arms, 
48 pieces of artillery. 17 heavy Runs, from, 2,000 to 4,000 horses, and large 
quantities of commis.sary stores." 

Scribner's History of the United States says: Grant's force numbered 
Su.OOO men, and the garrison of the fort 20,000. 

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(Jur sick people are mostly recovering. A young son of 
Mr. J. O. B. Renick, of Columbus — the last of seven children 
— now at Mr. Bryant's ^ farm west of town, is said to be dying. 
His physician is Dr. T. B. Fisher. We now have loud calls 
for donations of hospital stores. I will send forward a few 
bottles of my fine old currant wine. It may comfort a few weak 
famishing soldiers. 

Lieutenant , who has been here nearly all win- 
ter, claims that he is at home on furlough. It is quite strange 

as officers are now in great demand. It is hinted that 

he was court-martialed some months since for dissipation, and 
dismissed the service. If true it would not surprise the friends 
of the family, for it is reported that he visits drinking places 
nightly, gets into altercations and rows, flourishes his revolver, 
etc., and no longer seeks the society of people of his class, and 
station in life. 

Your friend Byron Wilson of the U. S. Navy, now in com- 
mand of a gunboat on the Mississippi, is reputed to be a very 
competent and reliable officer. He recently embraced religion, 
and joined the Presbyterian church. D. S. Miller is now buy- 
ing cattle on his own account in Wyandot county. While I 
wish the boy success, I think his time far better spent at school. 
But this is only my judgment; he has friends quite competent 
to advise him. I am glad Mary is learning to read German, for 
she will probably never lose the accent and pronunciation. 

Your afl:'ectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 3, 1862. 

My dear Princess: — This is a disagreeable morning, but 
can we expect anything better of March ? To-morrow is my birth- 
day, and if you were at home I should probably receive a present. 
Mother wrote you that Lizzie ^ was quite sick, but she is now 

1 J. W. C. Bryant, owner of a large stock farm near Marion, graduate 
of Bethany College, Virginia, and a nephew of the great Alexander Camp- 
bell, founder of the Campbellite Church, — a sect called Disciples of Christ. 

- Elizabeth V. Tillotson. 
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slowly improving. Several of our sick folks have entirely re- 
covered. Only one died, Black Simon's ^ wife, who was buried 
last week. She poor thing, found rest at last. It is now feared 
that the balance of the family will go to destruction. 

Our church debt is paid at last ; and the church is lighted 
with gas, upstairs and down. Several needed improvements have 
also been made. * * * I was very glad to hear from Miss 
Annie Turrill,- of London. Yesterday I answered her letter. 
Her correspondence will no doul:)t be highly interesting, and of 

' "Black Simon" refers to Simon Pierce, a negro tjarber, who came 
to Marion in the early thirties, and some time after opened a barber shop. 
He was far from faultless, but made himself useful, almost indispensable 
in the new county seat. No better natured negro ever lived there, and he 
vas handy, and more or less necessary at parties, dances, festivals, camp- 
meetings, and other functions, and about the holidays when fat swine 
were killed, cured and made into sausage. He claimed to have a patent 
on "Old Virginy tenderloin .sausage," seasoned with salt, pepper, sage, etc. 
He was a broad-shouldered man of great muscular strength, and in his 
prime was called a No. 1 barber. He and his family we're members of the 
M. E. Church, and with the other colored people (of whom there were 
■only a few), sat in the extreme rear seats near the entrance. His wife 
who had been "converted." was considered a good pious woman, but 
Simen's piety, — well, the least said about it the better. 

A unique advertisement of Simon appeared In the V^'"estern Galaxy, pub- 
lished in Marion by Wm. Milliken, a brother-in-law of Daniel S. Drake. 
William Milliken, now (1!)02), nearly 100 years old, still lives and publishes 
a paper In Washington C. H. Simon's ad. here follows, and was kindly 
furnished me by Mr. Harry True, Vice President of the Marion County 
Bank. 

"Honesty carries a smooth chin. 
Shaving and Hair Cutting. 

Simon Pierce, Fashionable Hair Cutter and Shaver, having established 
himself in the town of Marion, on Main. St., four doors north of Kennedy 
and Patten's Hotel, will be grateful for a share of patronage. 

In trimming hair it needeth taste. 
To suit the person and the face, 
And scraping chins that tender part, 
To do with case requireth art. 

With scissors sharp and razors keen, 

'Tis I can scrape your faces clean. 
And best of all to serve you well, 
I'll from your clothes the dust expel. 

Marion, Ohio, January 18th, 1834. N. B. Razors will be honed in the 
best possible manner, and on short notice." 

2 Miss Annie Turrill was a handsome English lady about 18 years old, 
w'ealthy, refined, and cultured, who was sojourning in Hamburg with her 
widowed mother and sister. From Hamburg they went to Brussels, where 
they remained several months before returning to London. They were in- 
timate friends of my family. 

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value to me. Will you kindly send me her photograph ? She 
has seen mine, and therefore knows something of my appear- 
ance. In one of your letters you said she looked like me, and 
James in one of his said she was heautiful. Putting that 
and this together flatters me. Only young married people were 
invited to the party recently given hy Mrs. Hattie Bartram. She 
regretted that I was not of that class. Mrs. Maggie Pollock 
of Bellefontaine informs me that she like her husljand has been 
sick all Winter. Her married life has not been pleasant in my 
opinion, on account of her hiisband's protracted illness. 

Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



THO^^IAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 3d. 1862. 

My DEAR Son : — Eugene Tillotson has been promoted from 
■orderly sergeant to second lieutenant. Pie is in Capt. Jim. 
Brown' company you know, and they are in Kentucky, where we 
have had most brilliant victories. We are surrounding the rebels 
pretty effectually ; and as we are now wdiipping them badly 
in every quarter, I think the rebellion must soon cease. The 
rebels are said to be much disheartened, and if so, they must 
soon yield. * * * B. II. Williams is about to remove to 
Muncie, Ind. H. Thomas will return to Mt. Gilead to live. 

I must quit writing, to expose at public sale as Master Com- 
missioner, ten lots in Marion, the property of Richard Wilson.'^ 
He has only a lialf hour in which to raise the money, for I 
must offer them at 10 o'clock a. m. I pity Dick. Thomas 
Walker, and James Walker, sons of Jesse Walker, and George 
Riley, son of John J. Riley, farmers, are dead of typhoid fever. 

I informed you that Leatherberry had traded for the hotel 
so long kept by Cy. Mann. It will now be kept by a Mr. Davis, 

^ Hon. Richard Wilson, born in Pennsylvania, November 14, 1804, was 
cne of the most popular men that ever lived in Marion and one of the 
inost liberal. For SO or 40 years he held important offices. He was the 
father of Captain Byron "Wilson of the U. S. Navy, and the father-in-law 
of Lieut. Frank R. Salter, of Marion. This big-hearted, honest man, died 
in Marion, February 11, 1SS2. 

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and probably Smith Pierson, the fat man of the U. S. Hotel at 
Gallon. The old Henry Peters-Bush stone business house, on 
Main street has changed hands ; W. H. Searls and August Kraner 
bought it. It is being enlarged. T. J. Magruder bought the old 
George Geiger ^ brick block. Merrill and Turney have bought 
the Beckman brick block, next to- Jamison's furniture store. 
Johnson and Uhler, have erected a fine building, wliere the old. 
"checkered store" of J. S. Reed & Co. stood. 

I fear I shall have trouble with . He is a captious 

fellow, and declares he will leave the place unless the rent is re- 
duced. I told him to expect no reduction in these times, when 
everything the farmer has to sell commands a good price. 

You wish to know when I was reappointed Master Com- 
missioner. It was in May last, during the May term of the 
Court of Common Pleas. My term^would have expired in June 
last. You know the appointment is for three years. Love to all. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 14, 1862. 

Dear Son : — Yours of the 22d ult. duly received. I was 
yesterday informed by Tom. Dye, that Hedges would not re- 
rent the 404 acre Prairie Farm. * * * 

You wish my opinion of the value of U. S. Treasury notes. 
We know they are now current and good, and believe they 
will continue to be the best currency in the country. They 
are a legal tender for all purposes except payment oi duties on 
foreign imports. All bank bills or notes must come to their 
par standard, or go out of circulation. U. S. paper money must 
be good, when it is made by law a legal tender. 

1 George Geiger, a prominent business man of Marion, was born in. 
Maryland, in 1812, married Margaret Beerbower, and died in Marion, 
March 17, 1844. Their children were Sarah E., Mary A., Charlotte, Robert 
W., and John W. The standing of the members of this family has always 
been high: and Mr. Robert W. Geiger has held prominent railroad positions 
since he left Marion in 1860. He is now General Southern Agent of all the 
lines of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and resides at Atlanta, Ga. 

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The Rebels must give up before long, for they are being 
cornered, and whipped, and stripped of their strongholds. They 
have evacuated Columbus, Ky., Manassas Junction, Va., Win- 
chester,! Va., Nashville, Tenn., Pensacola, Fla., and the navy 
yard ^ nearby. We will have a heavy war tax to pay here- 
after and for some years to come, but we must bear it like 
men, tliat we may put down the rebellion. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — Wool is advancing in price. Corn is still selling 
at 25, wheat at 80, rye 35, lard 6 cents per lb, cheese 8, flour 
$5 per bbl., corn meal 50 cents per bushel. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 17, 1862. 

Dear Princie : — -Yours of the 23d ult. was duly received. 
You think your last letter was uninteresting. No, no, my dear; 
every word was intensely interesting' to me. I think your let- 
ters excellent. But I know of course that one in your delicate 
health can't always write with the same ease and zest. A good 
tonic ^ taken during April and May might invigorate you. 

James said in his last that the Americans in Hamburg would 
celebrate Washington's birthday. It was celebrated with great 
enthusiasm in all the loyal states. James does not expect our 
army to advance until summer. Summer indeed ! Our noble 
armies wherever stationed, haz'c advanced, except the Army of 
the Potomac, and been victorious too, and that army might 
have done the same in my humble judgment but for some un- 
accountable stupidity. 

1 stonewall Jackson evacuated Winchester, March 11, 1862. 

= This yard was surrendered to the Confederates January 12, 1861. 
It was evacuated May 10, 1862, the Confederates having first fired and 
•destroyed everything of value. Our army occupied the forts and hoisted 
the Union flags the same day. 

3 The tonic used over there was generally good Rhenish wine or French 
■claret or both. 

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I do not want you to feel like not reading our American 
newspapers because there is much in tliem that is untrue, un- 
reliable. There is much more of truth than untruth in them. 
The reliable far outweighs the unreliable. They are the best 
newspapers in the world, that is the respectable portion of them. 
To be sure they make very bold charges against men in high 
places. Well, be it so. If they are not guilty let them clear 
themselves as Fremont has done, though the papers really stood' 
by him all the time. His enemies, not the papers, pressed the 
charges, ^^ou will see in a late number of the N. Y. Tribune 
some severe strictures on Gen. McClellan. Well if he deserves 
it. let him bear it. If he is all right he can afford to bear it. 
You will also see by the papers that the Rebels have been 
driven from Missouri, from Kentucky, and from portions of 
Tennessee, and from many other points ; all of which is true. 

You know I presume that Columbus, Ohio, has the honor 
of having a great many Rebel prisoners of war cjuartered near 
the city,^ among whom are eight hundred officers. Mrs. Sen- 
ator Hood, who wsus in Columbus and saw the 800 march 
through town to Camp Chase, says they were a motley set, 
dressed in garments of every conceivable style, material and 
color: yellow, red, blue, gray, butternut, etc. Around some, 
dirty old bed quilts were thrown, pieces of carpeting, ragged 
blankets, etc. Alongside marched a woman, an officer's wife, 
who said she would go wherever he went. When the prisoners 
reached Camp Chase, she was refused admittance, and taken back 
to town, where boarding was secured for her; (better than 
the Rebels would treat our people). She was poorly clad, wore 
an old alpaca dress, and an old silk mantilla, in the dead of win- 
ter, and the family where she boards says that these comprise 
her wardrolie. Of course the ladies of C/^lumbus will contribute 
to her necessities. I know you are tired of this. * * * 

Mrs. John Bartram - who met me on the street a few days 
ago sends nmch love. Mr. Tillotson's family send love. My 



lAt Camp Chase four miles west of the city. "On March 1, (1862), 
720 arrived, increasing- the number in Camp Chase to 1,200. These too, 
were in large part officers and all from Ft. Donelson. Their uniforms were 
of all styles and colors." From A. B. Lee's History of Columbus, VoL 
2, p. 116. 

- A sister of the late Mr. H. T. Van Fleet. 

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kindest regards to Airs. Turrill and family. We look anxiously 
for tlie all)uni. Adieu my dear I'rincie. 

Yours aft'ectionatelv. 

P. S. —Gen. McClellan seems to he aroused at last. I'erhaps 
criticism did him good. To his soldiers, who greet him warmly, 
he has just delivered a tine address. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES li. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 29, 1862. 

Dear Princie: — Yesterday Mr. Anderson and I spent sev- 
eral very pleasant hours at the pleasant home of Judge and 
Mrs. Ozias Bowen. It was a dinner party, and at 5 o'clock 
ten liesides the host and hostess were seated at the tahle, which 
was lovely and sumptuous. The dinner was rare and more than 
ordinarily ceremonious, and I wish you had been present. The 
ladies kindly inquired about you and sent their love. If it be 
true that the civilization of a country is shown by the character 
of its dinners, then taking this one as a specimen, ours is fairly 
creditable. 

We have had only a few pleasant days this month. It is 
gloomy today, and has been so dark part of the time we could 
neither sew nor read. In the shops the gas is lit. Well I shall 
have to stop writing as four young ladies are here talking to 
Annie, and making a complete babel. 

March 30th. I was at church to-day and heard the Rev. 
Isaac Newton ^ preach one of his best sermons. * * * I 
wish he were a little differently constituted. 

Sickness has nearly subsided, but Mr. R. H. Johnson is still 
confined to his house. Tomorrow I shall write to your sister 
Maria ; trust she is now well. Our friend Mrs. Pauline Peters 
Durfee, in the absence of her Imsband, Col. Bradford R. Dur- 
fee though with his consent, is about to remove to wSpringfield, 

' He wa.s born in Sheffield, England, in 1S2:i. and graduated from the 
O. W'. University in 1S56. He received froni tlie O. W. U. the degree of^ 
A. B. in 18.5(;, the degree of A. M. in 1.S50. and in 1S62. S. T. D. He died 
in Toledo. Ohio, Septemljer ].">, lOtii). 

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Ohio. It is regarded as an eccentric move. Pauline and Mary 
Williams send much love. 

March 31. We have just received yours of the loth inst. 
The one to Annie will not be answered this mail, as she is at- 
tending a meeting- of the Aid Society. A movement is on foot 
to get up an entertainment — music, tableaux, etc. • — to raise 
money for the families in our midst of soldiers, — poor families 
of course, none other. You say you wept when you read that 
we missed you. Then Princie you might weep all the time, as 

we miss you all the time, and , and sweet little Mary 

too. But you must not weep unless for joy, nor be low-spirited. 
Your spirits have so much to do with your health. Tell James 
to take you out driving oftener. 

Mrs. James H. Godman has been confined to her room nearly 
all Winter. She is recovering however, and is now able to 
drive out. I think it was owing to depression of spirits. 

Henry C. Godman has bought the T. P. Wallace residence 
on West Center street. Mrs. Dr. Gailey has sold her residence 
to ex-Sheriff W. B. Lewis. Messrs. Tillotson and Lewis are 
now in Washington delivering army horses purchased for the 
Government. My sister, Mrs. Tillotson, was here a short time 
ago, and sends her best love to all. To-day we received a Lon- 
don newspaper, in which I find an account of the celebration 
in Hamburg of Washington's birthday — the speeches made by 
the U. S. Consul, and others, etc. Cora has not received the 
tarlatan. Very affectionately. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 30, 1862. 

Dear Son : — This is a warm, beautiful spring day. The tops 
of our maples are full of bees sipping the bursting buds. The 
grass on our grounds is already quite green. 

John D. Pjrown's wife died here a week ago last Tuesday. 
He remain.ed in town for a week, dined with us on Sunday, 
spent the afternoon, talked over old times, and spoke of the 
pleasant hours he had spent with you. He did not seem much 

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depresseel, but he is so constituted, — has so much hope. I think 
he will never feel a calamity as some would. He has two chil- 
dren who are now at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Sellers. From here he went to Columbus, to get the job 
of indexing the county records, the legislature having just 
passed an act authorizing it. If unsuccessful he will return 
to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he is working on a contract for the in- 
dexing, etc., of the city and county mortgage records. He re- 
ceives $19,000 and thinks it is worth to him $10,000, but I am 
afraid it will fall far short of that mark. He has a year in 
which to complete his Brooklyn contract. He says he employs 
from 5 to 7 men, and is hard run for money, but does not wish 
to dispose of any of his real estate as it is now low. He says 
he owns 4,000 acres of choice land, clear of all encumbrances, 
besides city lots, and that the taxes oppress him. If this state- 
ment is true, John D. is fairly well off — on the road to wealth. 

Lute Smith, brother of George Smith, buried in Delaware 
a few days ago, was killed In- the Inu'Sting of a cannon. 

You doubtless hear of the success of our arms in nearly 
every engagement. The latest was achieved at Winchester, Va., 
and was complete. The Fou.rth Ohio, under Gen. Shields, was 
detailed for other service, and was not in this engagement, but 
the Fifth and Eighth, shared in the suffering and the glory.^ 
Fifteen days ago Col. John Beatty's regiment was four miles 
south of Nashville. The two Tillotson boys, Maj. John J. Wil- 
liams, and others from this place, were also there, it is said. As 
soon as our troops take Island No. 10 (in the Mississippi), 
they expect to march on Memphis. The Island is well fortified, 
and the Rebels are making a formidable resistance, but our gun 
boats are l)attering away at them and I think they will soon 
yield. A balloon reconnoissance yesterday, resulted in the dis- 
coverv that our guns and mortars had been using too much 
powder, throwing shot and shell beyond the enemy, doing little 
execution. In future this will l)e avoided. Our boats keep out 
of reach of the guns of the enemy. 

1 Gen. Shields commanding 7,000 Union troops, met 10,000 Confederates 
under Stonewall Jackson, just outside of "Winchester, March 2?,, ISGJ. and 
Jackson's troops were defeated. It was one of the severe battles of the 
war. Shields was wounded. 

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The president yesterday sent to the Senate, the name of Hon. 
Carl Schitrz.i for brigadier-general. It will doubtless be con- 
firmed. We have not received the papers you expected Mr. 
Schurz to forward. You probably forgot to give him the proper 
address. 

March 31. In the morning paper I notice that the presi- 
dent has sent into the Senate, the name of Bayard Taylor, the 
author and traveler, as Secretary of the U. S. Legation at St. 
Petersburg.- Today we have further particulars of the battle 
of Winchester. The battlefield, to which Hon. Wilham H. Sew- 
ard made a visit, was a sight to be seen. The ground was strewn 
with dead and wounded Rebels, and Union soldiers. Our loss 
was heavy. Rebel loss estimated at nearly i.ooo killed and 
wounded. Braver men than the Federals never fought. 

Your afifectionate mother. 



HON. CARL SCHURZ TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

* Washington, March 1, 1802. 

J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

( '. .S". Consul, Hamburg. 
My dear Sir: — As soon as I received the copies of your two dis- 
patches dated January 18th, I went to Mr. Seward, and had a talk with him 
aljout it. He informed me that the arrangement you propose, i. e.. the 
consolidation of the two consulates of Hamburg and Altona, would re- 
quire an act of Congress, and that Congress, far from being disposed 
to increase salaries directly or indirectly, was rather disposed to cut 
them down. This opinion agreed but too well with my own experience. 
I had several conversations with members of Congress about your case, 
but the uniform reply was that almost all consuls made the same com- 
plaint, and that this was not a time for raising salaries. My dear sir, 
we have to suffer with the rest of them, and we may congratulate our- 
selves if our salaries are not cut down ten per cent of which there is 
great danger. Seward himself coinplains that Congress has no apprecia- 
tion of these things. However I shall see the members of Congress who 



1 Hon. Carl Schurz wa.s U. S. Minister at Madrid in 1861. His wife, a 
native of Hamburg-, remained there with relatives till her hvisband relin- 
quished his post. On his way to the United States he stopped at Hamburg 
several week.s. and I often saw him. 

- It was told as a joke in Germany in 1862, that the great Baron von 
Humboldt had said that Bayard Taylor had traveled farther and seen less 
than any man of his time. After Mr. Taylor reached St. Peteisburg, he 
wrote me a number of letters which I still have. 

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have this matter in charge, once more, and try to giv^c them a clear and' 
reasonable view of the case. 

As to onr mihtary affairs you know enough ah-eady. Bull Run is 
wiped out, and our western armies are in pursuit of the enemy. The 
army of the Potomac, will I hope move in a few days. Whether the 
war will soon be at an end is still doubtful to me. If the rebels judici- 
ously and energetically avail themselves of their resources and means 
of defense, they may prolong the war in the interior of their country 
for a long time. At all events the ultimate result is foreshadowed by 
what we have already seen. 

I must not forget to mention that Seward spoke very highly of you 
and your services. My family are all well. Mrs. S. was a little indis- 
posed a few days ago, but is now in good health again. The children 
are in the best spirits. Our very best regards to yourself and Mrs. 
Anderson. 

Yours very truly 

C. SCHUKZ. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 31, 1862. 

Dear Son : — Yours of the 7th inst. i-eccived. The 'Tondon- 
American" also came to hand. Ottr troops now are occttpying 
the house and farm of James M. Mason^ of Winchester, Va., 
as a hospital and parade-ground. We are now whipping the 
Rehcls in nearly every instance. They have lost confidence, it 
is said, in their leaders. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — J. S. Reed, Esq., got your letter, which told him of 
the shotgun you hought and sent him. T do not send you the 

• , because its editor is thought disloyal, and its editorials 

unfriendly to our government if not treasonable. Our old friend 
John Gruber who lived two miles east of town, died some days 
ago, also old Mr. Shirtliff. 

' Mason and Slidell, sent as Confedei-ate commissioners to Elngland and 
France respectively, taken from the British steamer "Trent," by Capt. 
Wilkes of the U. S. ship "San Jacinto," November 8, 1801, and confnied in 
Ft. Warren. Released on demand of the British Government January 2, 
1862. J. M. Mason, one of the most distinguished men in Virginia, died 
April 28, 1871. He belonged to an ancient, historic, English, and Virginia' 
family. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April 13th, 1862. 

Dear Son : — Admonished that the time is approaching- for 
mailing- letters, I avail myself of the present moment to write 
you. Having over--worked myself yesterday I am not very well, 
and shall not attend church to-day. Nothing serious however: 
1 shall be myself again in a few days. There is a great dearth 
of news here at present, except war. That is encouraging. Vic- 
tory still perches on our standards. 

The battle of Pittsl)urg Landing,^ was the most dreadful 
of the war, though we finally put the enemy to flight. Nor ex- 
pecting an attack at the time, we had the misfortune at the com- 
mencement of the engagement to lose Gen. Prentiss, and two 
thousand men. The Rebels came upon him carrying the stars 
and stripes, and as he was in the advance, was surrounded and 
taken. But the second day, while the enemy was retreating, 
Prentiss got away with a part of his command. I am sorry they 
got any of our men, but we have at least 20,000 of theirs, taken 
at dififerent times. We took 6000 prisoners at Island No. 10, — 
an island in the Mississippi. 

The four o'clock train brought home three dead soldiers from 
the Lexington hospital, who took sick on their way down. One 
lived in this place, Marion Corn, whom you probably knew ; one 
lived in Caledonia, and the other in Prospect township. Eugene 
and Charley Tillotson were in Tenn., during the battle of Pitts- 
burg Landing. Eugene has not yet been heard from ; Charley 
lay sick in hospital. Major John J. Williams has written home 
that the division to which his regiment belongs was not engaged. 
Prof. Philip Phillips- has gone to Nashville for Harvey Clark's 
son Chis brother-in-law.) We heard that Maj. James H. God- 
man was kicked by a horse and badly injured. 

^The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg- Landing, was fought April 6-7, 
1862. The flr.st day the Reljels were victorious, but the second day they 
were beaten and routed. Grant, Prentiss, McClernand, and Sherman com- 
manded the Union army, which lost 1.5.000 men. Albert Sidney Johnston, 
Beauregard, Bragg, and Hardee commanded the confederates, who lost 
11,000. The first day Grant had 33,000 men; the second day Buell joined 
:him with 7,000 more. The enemy was 40,000 strong. 

2 Phillips, "the Singing Pilgrim." who made the tour of the world 
"singing for Jesus." 

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You will see by the newspapers that Mr. Carl Schurz is now 
a brigadier-general in our army, and hence will not return to- 
Madrid as U. S. Minister. The papers with which you entrusted 
him in Hamburg, have not yet reached us. Not one of our ac- 
quaintances, so far as we have heard, has l)een killed in battle ; 
but it is said of two Lima companies, that only ih escaped death 
or wounds in the recent bloody battle. 

Our ladies are very busy preparing hospital stores for the 
sick and wounded. The last box we sent contained some pillow 
cases and bandages that I made myself at home. We send an- 
other this week. I never attend the Soldiers' Aid Society, but 
do what I can at home. Annie however attends its meetings. 
The governor of the State has made another urgent call on all 
Ohio ladies, but particularly on Columbus ladies, for hospital 
comforts. The ladies of Columbus, I must say, have acted nobly. 
The first ladies of that city, those who scarcely think of doing 
their own sewing, have worked all winter for the soldiers. To 
raise money for the relief of the suffering, they open bazaars, 
and resort to every other honest method or project. 

If this dreadful wicked war has a tendency to demoralize and 
harden, it too has a tendency to bring out and develop all the 
better and finer qualities of our nature. A year ago I could not 
have believed the people generally so benevolent. The times 
make men and no doubt women too. 

I am much afraid we are going to have smallpox here. A 
Waldo man, in cam}) at Louisville, Ky., contracted the dread 
disease, then came home, and now it is spreading around that 
part of the county. 

April 15th. I just received a beautiful photograph album 

from Princie, containing sweet little , looking "true to 

life." I am much pleased with it. But with every pleasure 
comes some pain or disappointment. I was sorry the photo- 
graphs of yourself and Princie did not accompany it. If you 
will have them taken and sent, they will soon find a place in the 
album. We are all much pleased with Mrs. Turrill's picture. 
Pray return my warmest thanks. * * * 

Urge Princie to go out in the open, as much as possible. Con- 
finement is crushing to a woman of her temperament. She needs 
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to walk or ride she should drive. ■''- ''= * You have the satis- 
faction of knowing you do your duty, and that the Government 
appreciates you. * * * We have a prospect of an abundant 
peach crop. The buds are swelling and will bloom two weeks 

hence. Violets and other early flowering plants are blooming. 
* * * 

Your afl:ectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April 15, 1862. 

My dear Son: — A week ago Sunday and Monday, April 
6th and 7th, there was one of the hardest fought battles at Pitts- 
burg Landmg,! on the Tennessee river, that has taken place 
since the rebellion broke out. I believe none of our Marion 
county troops were in this great battle. We came out victorious, 
but with a very heavy loss of life. The rebel loss it is reported 
was still heavier. 

Charles Tillotson, who is still with the army in Tennessee, is 
now very sick. Last night his father, and Newton Messenger, ^ 
started together for Tennessee to see their sick sons. Last week 
two of our Marion county soldiers, Corn, and Boxwell, were 
brought home dead. Colonels Cantwell and Durfee, with their 
regiment, the 82d O., are at Moorefield, Va. They are under 
Gen. Fremont. The Tillotson boys are in Capt. James Brown's 
Co., 64th reg. O. V. I., now in Tennessee. 

Hon. O. Bowen will Imild this season a large fine brick dwell- 
ing house on Berry's hill, near Gol. Gorton's farm. Charley 
Smith-^ will of course be his architect and master-builder. Court 
is now in session, and Judge Lawrence on the bench. Lyman 
Spaulding was in Columbus a week or two ago, and went thence 
to Zanesville to see Peleg Bunker. Judge Bartram who saw him, 
said he looked well. Air. O. J. Johnson is quite sick of typhoid 
fever. 

^ Albert Sidney Johnston, the able Rebel commander was slain. 

- Thirty years a justice of the peace in Big Island township, and a 
Tieavy land owner. 

8 There were so many named Charles Smith in Marion, that he was 
known as "Wooden Charley." He was a good, intelligent citizen. 

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I think Trincess ought to travel more, and breathe plenty of 
fresh pure air. Let her travel for her health ; it will do her 
good. If your official income be not sufficient, you have plenty 
here. It is just as well to take some pleasure as you pass through 
life, and not spend all the time housed up unless it be absolutely 
necessary in order to live. 

J. C. Johnston the attorney, (son-in-law of Rev. George 
Baker,) who moved to Bellefontaine last summer, has returned. 
Since the war began there has been very little litigation here, 
and lawyers have not prospered. * * '•' Diebolt has bought 
the John Gurley corner.^ Simon DeWolfe- has possession of 
the Steam Flouring Mill, and is now "an honest miller." John 
E. Krancr has bought a part of the "Old Stone Block," on Main 
street, erected by Henry Peters away back in the twenties or 
early thirties. 

I have already told you that I was reappointed Master Com- 
missioner last May, during the May term of the Com. Pleas, 
for three years. My present term will expire two years from 
June next. Cora talks a great deal about Mary, and was glad 
to see her photograi)h in the album sent us. It is quite lifelike, 
holding her little doll in her arms. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April i6, 1862. 

Dear Daughter : — A letter from James dated the 26th ult., 
the day your son"' was born, was received yesterday. Fine 

1 The lot on the N. E. Coi-. of Main and South, now Church street, 
once called "the ketch-all." 

2 Simon E. DeWolfe wa.s born in Oneida Co., N .Y., December 16, 1852. 
Came to Marion Aug'ust 21, 1858, with corps of engineers as rodman to 
locate the Franklin and Warren R. R. Was 1st lieut. of Co. B. l.'iOth reg. 
O. N. G., from May 2, 1864 to August 31, isfi4. Served near Washington 
D. C. His first wife was Miss Susan Busby, born in Marion. July 27, 
1S33, and died August 31, 1877. His second wife was Miss S. D. W^ebster. 
born August 12, 1857. There were two children by the first marriage and 
six by the second. In peace and war DeWolfe made an enviable record. 
He was also fortunate in marrying fine, attractive young women who 
belonged to good families. 

3 The child born March 26, 1S62 — James Thomas Anderson — gradu- 
ated in June 1884, at tbe Ohio State University, receiving the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. 

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business this, keeping things a secret from us all. Well, I am 
glad you did so, for it saved me some solicitude. I am glad that 
}OU and the babe were doing well. I shall now anxiously look 
for letters from Hamburg. If the next letter I receive is satis- 
factory, I shall breathe easier, feeling that you are getting along 
fairly well. I thought at first that I would suggest a name, but 
1 won't. Parents know better the name to give, at least the name 
they prefer. 

I told Mrs. Hood, as soon as I got the letter, and the news 
spread. Mrs. Gailey, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Fribley and others 
congratulate me on having a grandson.^ Mrs. Gailey thinks she 
has a good joke on Mrs. Eliza Dickerson who was crying the 
other day on hearing that you were very sick. I told Mrs. G. 
that you were really in poor health. Generally speaking the 
world looks on such suffering with too much indifference. Per- 
sons thus afflicted have my extremest sympathy. I wrote so 
much yesterday that you will be tired reading. x'VU our friends 
send best wishes. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April i6, 1862. 

My Dear Son : — Yesterday I received yours of March 26th 
informing us of the addition to your family of a son. It gives 

1 Note. A record of the birth of James Thomas Anderson will be found 
in the "Record of Births and Deaths," in the U. S. Consulate, at Hamburg. 
He married Miss Helen Bagley, daughter of the late Governor Bagley of 
Mich., May 26, lcS98. Their only child Helen, was born June 6, 1899. He 
became a member of the Phi Gamma Delta College Fraternity, May 1, 1880. 
The diploma conferring on him the degree of A. B., is dated June 18, 1884. 
His commission as Second Lieutenant in the 16th reg. U. S. A., is dated 
Oct. 30, 1884, and is signed by the President and Secretary of War. His 
certificate of membership in tlie Military Service Institution of the United 
States, is dated Sept. 12. 1891. He is a member of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Society of 
Colonial Wars. He is a member of the Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution. His commission as First Lieutenant of U. S. Infantry to rank as 
such from Nov. 1. 1891, is dated Jan'y 7, 1892, and is signed by th"e President 
and Secretary of War. His diploma from the U. S. Infantry and Cavalry 
School, declaring him proficient in Military Art, Infantry, Cavalry, Engineer- 
ing, etc., is dated Ft. Leavenworth, June 15, 1893. He was elected Deputy 
Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars, Jan'y 18, 1902, at Denver, Colorado, 
— succeeding Hon. E. O. Wolcott, late U. S. Senator. 

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us great satisfaction to know that you have a son born in good 
heakh. We trust both mother and son are still doing well 
Do not give your son any long homely foreign name, but a good, 
plain family name. If he live, he will be a good loyal Union 
man, and stand for his country against all internal and external 
enemies, at home or abroad, or he would be the only one of the 
family that ever proved recreant to his country. I send to-day 
a copy of your letter about your son to Mrs. R. N. Taylor, of 
Wyandot county. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 
P. S.— Mary must kiss little brother for grandfather, and 
teach him to talk German, (Deutsch ), and ask for Speck und Eier 
und Sauerkraut, and take good care of him, and bring him home 
to grandfather and grandmother. 

From grandfather to Mary. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Oiiio^ April 27, 1862. 

Dear Princte :— Yesterday we received a letter tellino- us all 
about the baby. In the next we hope to learn the youn-^entle- 
nian's name, the color of his hair, and eyes, and whether he 
looks like Mary. James thinks the nurse a tvrant in not per- 
mittmg you to sit up for nine davs. In that I think she was 
quite right, but not in excluding all company for six weeks. In 
this she IS simple to say the least. * * * 

You have heard ere this about our dreadful battle in Tenn 
the battle of Pittsburg Landing. Charley Tillotson is lying very 
low of typhoid fever, 40 miles below Nashville. His father is 
now at his side, and writes that he will probablv be able to start 
home with him in ten days. But I fear Charley will never see 
his home again. Mr. Tillotson says that from one to three die 
daily in the hospital. 

"We have taken New Orleans," is the telegram to-day but 
we await its confirmation which will take two or three days.i 

1 Admiral Parragut with his Gulf SquadronTADriraTTsfi^^T^r^^Ti: 

ZlT^^'^'Tr'- '^'•°^^^"^' ^^^^-^^^^ ^-* the ctSeite o'rts IJSTe 
fall of New Orleans, and its occupancy by Gen. Butler's army. 

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Gen. McClellan is l^attering away at Yorktown, and our folks 
seem to have no doubt of his success. Our arms are everywhere 
victorious, but usually with the loss of much precious blood. O 
cruel, savage war! It makes my blood run cold to read the daily 
bulletins. My heart sickens and turns away ! The stories of the 
battlefield, of the dead and wounded, of the positions in which 
they are found! One with his testament lying on his breast, 
another with it on his face, show in whom men put their trust 
m the parting hour. 

Josephine TirrilP is now here ; came home on her brother 
Charley's account. She sends her love to you and wishes you 
to write to her. 

Dear Princie : — I know you will think this a very uninterest- 
mg scrawl, but I am interrupted every minute. Mechanics are 
making repairs and improvements. I have to talk to the painter, 
to the glazier, and others, and write at the same time. So I will 
quit for I don't really know what I am saying myself. * * * 
Kiss Mary for me about twenty times, and that little brother of 
hers about ten. 

Your aiTectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April 28, 1862. 

My Dear Son :— We received yours of the 5th informing us 
that Princess was getting along tolerably well, and that the boy 
and Mary were in good health. Now as to your son's name: as 
he is the only grandson T have, and possibly the only one I may 
ever have bearing the name of Anderson, how would you like 
to call him Thomas jVIiller? He would then have my name, and 
his grandfather Miller's. Thomas is a family name among the 
Andersons. It was my grandfather's name, and Thomas M. 
would not sound badly. However, consult your own tastes, as 

1 Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Tillotson, niece of Mrs. Thomas J. 
Anderson, and wife of Mr. W. L. Tirrill. A cultivated and beautiful young- 
lady. She was educated at the Steubenville Female Seminary, which her 
mother attended many years before. 

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I do not wish to dictate. Your son, if he is a "Dutchman," is 
none the worse. I only hope he may grow up and make a good 
man, which I shall never live to see. 

I am now attending to my orchard and garden, pruning my 
trees, preparing my strawberry beds, etc., and find it pleasant 
employment. The frosts have done us no injury, and if fruit 
be not damaged by late frosts, we will have an abundance. 

We hear this morning again that our fleet has taken New 
Orleans. Let me know what progress you are making in the 
German language. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — Rev. J. M. Heller, who was elected justice of the peace 
on the plea of poverty, has in company with another, opened a 
large grocery and provision store in the room I occupied when 
you left. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, ^lay ii, 1862. 

Dear James : — Your father, who received a letter from you 
yesterday, has been quite unwell for several days. Two weeks 
ago he went to Upper Sandusky and rented the farms. I speak 
of this because he is sick, and may not be able to write. He was 
taken quite ill while away, (at Mr. Taylor's,) and was very 
much fatigued when he got home. He grew worse, and five days 
ago I sent for Dr. Fisher who has attended him faithfully. It 
was billions fever, partaking somewhat of the typhoid type. He 
still looks badly, but is better now, and I think he will be up 
and around in a few days. 

Mr. Tillotson got back from Tenn., on Friday morning with 
his son Charley, who looks like a skeleton. Charley was brought 
all the way on a litter, taken from an ambulance. It is as long as 
a bedstead, about as wide as the lounge in the sitting room, is 
well cushioned, covered with oil cloth, and is a comfortable con- 
trivance for a wounded or sick soldier. I believe I informed you 
that Harvey Clark's youngest son was brought home a corpse. 

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Mr. J. S. Reed told your father he had heard from his gun.^ 
Benjamin H. Williams has moved to Muncie, Ind., where he is- 
setting up a boot and shoe store. 

Francis M. Anderson- has received the appointment of postal 
agent, on the P. Ft. W. and C. R. R., and has removed to 
Crestline. 

You will see by the papers where Gen. O. M. Mitchell's 
division of the army is operating. Col. John Beatty's regiment 
was assigned to this division, and I am afraid the "Secesh" will 
surround them. Our arms are still victorious. May God have 
you in His holy keeping, may His mercies overshadow you 
and yours. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, May ii, 1862. 

Dear Princie : — How much I am gratified to know that you 
are doing better. I hope your health will continue to improve. 
Do you nurse the babe? Eliza D. brought Sam's baby here the 
other day for me to see. It is rather pretty, and very fat and 
healthy looking, and they call it Emily.^ Dr. Sweney* has 
gone to Tenn., to work in the hospitals. Dr. W. W. Bridge^ 
went also. Roland Holmes' only child died this (Tuesday) 
morning. 

13th. We have the finest fruit prospect we have had for 
years. Every flowering thing is in bloom. Not only fruit but 
ornamental trees seem one mass of flowers. The lilac, and early 

1 Elarly in 1862 I bought for James S. Reed, an intelligent sportsman, a 
fine double-barreled shot-gun'. I had it made in Germany according to 
Reed's written instructions. 

2 Mr. Francis M. Anderson, formerly mayor of Crestline, Ohio, and 
many years a member of the board of education, was born Feb. 12, 1830, 
was married to Miss Sarah E. Geiger, who was born July 24, 1834, and 
who died Nov. 24, 1899. Their only child Harry W. Anderson, born May 
31, 1863, was married Dec. 22, 1886. His children are: Bertha L. and 
Frank M. 

3 Daughter of Samuel H. Bartram, Attorney of Marion. 

* Dr. Robert L. Sweney, was surgeon of the 43d Reg. O. V. I. in 1862. 
6 Dr. Bridge, surgeon of the 46th Reg. O. "V. I., in 1862, and died In the 
service. 

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'flowering- shrubs arc now in their glory. I never saw plants, 
shrubs and trees so loaded down; such a profusion and wealth 
of flowers. Virgil is about as when you left I think, though he 
complains very much. I am as well as usual, but the germs of 
mortality are sown thick in my mortal body. I feel that I am 
tending to the tomb. 

Carroll Godman is to be married tomorrow to a Miss Gray/ 
of Findlay, O., a Methodist preacher's daughter. Possibly you 
knew her at Delaware where she attended school. She is said 
to be very pretty and his senior by a few years. On Friday 
evening his mother will give a large party in honor of the event. 
Mrs. John W. Bain is still dreadfully afflicted with erysipelas. 
She is now at a Water Cure where she expects to remain the 
greater part of the summer. She certainly has her share and 
a very large share, of physical suffering. If not cured, life will 
be a burden. 

Judge Bowen is about to build a fine residence on the hill, 
beyond Rev. I. N. Shepherd's. I am glad of it. I would like 
to see some of the money he made here, spent to improve the 
place. But he would scarcely do it if there was a demand for 
money at a large percentage. Indeed Mrs. Bowen told me that 
there was no demand at all ; and I suppose it is true, at figures 
he would think paying rates. Old Mr. Dumble^ died last week. 
The old are passing away. May the God of all grace comfort 
you, and remain with you to the end. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, May 25, 1862. 

Dear Son : — To-day there was no service at our church, nor 
was there any at the Presbyterian. I attended the Episcopal, 

1 Sister of Mr. D. S. Gray, a railroad official of wealth and promi- 
nence living in Columbus, Ohio. 

-John Durable, born in England, Nov. 30, 1790: died in Marion, May 9, 
1862. Was the father of John B. Durable, W. P. Durable, Jo. W. Durable, 
and Samuel R. Durable, all printers, editors, and raen of more than ordinary 
ability and enterprise. Samuel R. was born July 23, 1837, and died at 
Marion, March 6, 1895. 

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and heard an excellent sermon. Text : "Be ye steadfast, im- 
movable, always abounding in the work of the Lord." The regu- 
lar pastor occupied the pulpit, and the language of his discourse . 
which abounded in moving appeals to the unconverted, was very 
beautiful. 

Our pastor Mr. Newton, has for some time had poor healthy 
so he took a trip about two weeks ago to Tenn. There he went 
inside the army lines, after which Gen. Halleck denied ingress 
as well as egress to all, compelling him to remain till after the 
battle of Corinth, which is daily expected. The battle will have 
taken place long ere this reaches you, unless the Rebels leave 
the place and retreat, which they have been doing of late. 

The 82d regiment O. V. I., had quite a severe fight lately near 
Monterey. 1 You perhaps don't know where Monterey is. 
Well. I can't say that I do myself, but it is a city of small mag- 
nitude. Our friend Rev. H. B. Fry, who is chaplain of this 
regiment, was in the engagement near Monterey, was hit by a 
ball, knocked down, and rendered insensible ; and after he had 
been picked up, carried off the field, and revived, it was discovered 
that the ball had not penetrated the skin. Documents in his 
breast pocket probably saved his life ; but the concussion was so 
great that it deprived him of consciousness for a short time. 
Mrs. Fry received a long letter from him about the battle, but 
no mention was made of his own narrow escape. A young man 
named Diebolt was wounded. Sam. Berry, south of town, was 
wounded severely in the head. 

Mrs. Jane S. Williams entertained yesterday afternoon. 
About fifteen, mostly neighbors were present. It was a pleas- 
ant little party. They all made kind inquiries about you. 

I would not write L anything respecting your official 

business that should be known only to yourself and Mr. Seward, 
for he is very careless, and your letters might fall into the hands 
of the enemies of the government. 

I think our President and Cabinet are acting admirably, and 
that their course wall finally extort the admiration of the world. 
President Lincoln has shown himself a deep, strong, sagacious 
man, — a man for the times and the place. 

1 The fight took place May 8th, 1S62, near McDowell, on Bull-Pasture 

Mountain. 

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Col. I). R. Durfee of the 8jtl has resigned liis commission. 
Maj. J. S. Rohinson of Kenton has been promoted to fiU the 
vacancy. 1 jnst received your letter of the 6th inst. We are 
sorry yoti are so excited about our war trouliles. Take things 
calmly. You are onl}- one man, and can only till one place. 
Government should require no more of you. You are anxious to 
serve the country well, which is right ; but don't allow those 
things over which you have no control to disturb and trouble 
you. 

Your description of your trip to Brussels, and of your visit 
to the famous field of Waterloo pleased me. Such letters are 
always highly interesting. 

May 26th. We are all excitement this morning. A dispatch 
was received from Gov. Tod last night, in which he asks Marion 
for one hundred troops at once, and says that the capitol of the 
country is in imminent danger. A messenger just called and 
requested us to aid in furnishing breakfast for two Indiana regi- 
ments that were only discharged last week.^ They received a 
telegram from Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War, asking them 
to come on to Washington with all convenient dispatch. We 
expect them at 11 o'clock: 'tis now after 10. So I must go to 
work. May God protect and bless you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jtine 9, 1862. 

My dear Son : — I was very happy to read your letter in- 
forming me of * * *. I am pleased that you are keeping a 
journal, and expect to be much interested in its perusal. * '■ * 
The idea of your not being as capable of writing as formerlv. is 
all in your imagination. You are much more capable, and this 
very fact enables you to see deficiencies that vou could not 
otherwise. * * * 

1 In many way.s the loyal generous-hearted people stood by the govern- 
ment, and lielped the soldiers. 

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I hope the worst of our troubles are over. You will see by 
the papers that our armies are generally victorious. Memphis, 
almost the last Rebel stronghold on the Mississippi has fallen, 
and a great battle has been fought near Richmond. We have 
not yet taken the city but expect to soon. You have heard how 
Gen. Butler is straightening out the Rebels in New Orleans. His 
orders to the police on the subject of cleaning up the streets, 
etc., are very laughable, and he enforces them too. 

The 4th Ohio is under Gen. Banks ; Col. John Beatty's regi- 
ment is in Gen. O. M. Mitchel's division ; Eugene Tillotson, Dr. 
White, Dave Scott, and others from here are under Gen. Halleck, 
at Corinth ; Robinson, Ramsey. Scofield, and others, are under 
Fremont ; Will. Williams is Secretary of Gen. McDowell. I 
mention these facts, so that when you read of the movements and 
operations of our armies, you may be able to locate those with 
whom you are acquainted. 

Tom Hodder,! and Sam Bartram,- have been having a 
high time. Hodder is so venomous that it is hard for Sam. to 
put up with him, still it is better than to lay himself liable. Hod- 
der has been publishing libelous stuff about Judge Bartram ;^ 
and some time before, he had been publishing all manner of stuff 
about Sam.: — all because they had joined the LTnion party. So 
Sam. got excited, and went up into Hodder's printing ofifice, and 
pitched several cases of type out of the window. Hodder had 
him arrested and bound over to Court. Judge Bartram had Hod- 
der arrested for libel and bound over to Court. Sam. set up in 
his defence that the Mirror w^as a public nuisance, and as a good 
citizen it was his duty to. abate it. Sam. threatened Hodder's life 
if he again said anything disparaging of him or his father. Hod- 
der had him again arrested and bound over to keep the peace. 
They afterwards met near the foot of the stairway leading to 
Judge Bowen's ofifice, commenced throwing stones at each other, 
then drew their revolvers, when Major Busby^ stood between 

1 Hodder was the editor of the Marion Mirror. 

' Samuel H. Bartram. a prominent attorney. 

3 Judg-e Jolm Bartram, the father of Sam. 

* Major George H. Busby, ex-member of Congress, and a leading 
pioneer, was a soldier in the war of '12, came to Marion county in 1823 
before its organization, and held many offices of trust and profit from 1823, 
till 1869. when he died. He was a trusty, competent official, and a good 
citizen. He was a member of the 32d Congress, 1851-52, and the only citizen 

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tliem and put a stop to it. How it will end is hard to tell. I 
should not be surprised any moment to hear that Sam. had shot 
Hodder. * * * 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 9, 1862. • 

Dear Princie: — Yours of the 21st ult. received. I was very 
glad to hear from you. I had been unusually solicitous about 
you for two or three weeks. I thought of you last at night and 
first in the morning. * * * 

June loth. I am glad the babe is so good. It will relieve 
you of much worry. * * * Last night we had a frost, 
though not so severe a one as three years ago. The wheat is 
now in bloom, and some fear it is injured. * * * I expect 
soon to have the pleasure of visiting your sister Mrs. Fowler.^ 

Mr. Campbell,- the Presbyterian clergyman who has been 
filling Mr. Fry's pulpit since he entered the army, and quite a 
talented young man, died on Sabbath morning of typhoid fever. 
FI(; will be buried in Pittsburg, the birthplace of his wife, who 
yesterday accomp.anied the remains to that city. Mr. Campbell 
made many friends here, who mourn his untimely death. He 
was born in India, where his parents and family reside. His 
father was then and still is a missionary. 

Tell little Mary that neither she nor little brother can fall off 
of the portico when they return, as it is being supplied with a 
nice railing, and otherwise improved. 

of Marion county ever elected to Congress. His beautiful daughter Pauline 
E., in the early part of the year 1846, married Dr. John M. Christian, a clas- 
sical scholar, and principal of the Marion Academy. The doctor was born in 
1821 in New Kent county, Va., on the old home plantation known as Roxbury, 
was descended from an old cavalier family that settled in Va., early in the 
17th century, and was related to many of the F. F. V.'s. He died in Marion 
in 1882. His son George B., born Dec. 27, 1846, is one of the successful 
business men of Marion, and the father of three promising children. 

1 Mrs. Mary Ellen Parker Fowler, half sister of Mrs. James H. Anderson. 
Her home was on her husband's, F. F. Fowler's 1200 acre farm, 5 miles north 
of Upper Sandusky, O. 

- Rev. Thomas C. Campbell. 

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I wish you to notice your handsomest flowers from bulbous 
roots that are not seen here, and try to secure some of the bulbs 
(if vou can do so at a trifling cost) and send them over before 
cold weather. Send onlv one of a kind, and indicate that the 
package contains roots, so that the duty and expressage will be 
light. Mrs. Weaver A. Turney and Mrs. Judge Merrill have 
each a rare lily sent by Gertrude^ from Africa. She sent each 
a bulb. The tlovvers are beautiful. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 15, 1862. 

Dear James: — Our European mail duly arrived containing a 
letter dated the 25th and another the 27th ult., also two letters 
for Annie, one from Princie, the other from Miss Annie Turrill 
of London. You express a wish that we shall preserve the Ger- 
man newspaper that contains the announcement of the birth of 
your son. I am not quite certain that I can find it, but on re- 
ceiving the pa]^er I cut the announcement out, together with a 
jjaragraph in German immediately below it, and pasted the same 
in the Family Record, in the Family Bible, in the list of birtlis, 
where it will be safe. 

I am much pleased with the mementoes from the Field of 
Waterloo, which you kindly sent me. It was very considerate 
of you. The leaves you plucked have a peculiar shape ; I have 
never seen any just like them. I attach great value to them, 
because gathered by you on a spot so famous as "the bloody 
tield of Waterloo." I am glad you rise early, and take exercise, 
for T know it will benefit you. Adieu for the present. 

Your affectionate mother. 

P. S. — Dear Princie: — Take all the exercise in the open air 
}Our strength will admit of. Don't confine yourself to sewing, 
nor to anything else except the improvement of the mind, nor 
to that to your injury. Mrs. F. just came in and wishes me to 

^ Mrs. Gertrude Turney Messenger. 

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say that she will write when she gets leisure. I told her I 

thought vou had long sinee ceased to look for a letter. I 

C is paying strict attention to Miss L H , to the 

great annoyance of his family. His father I understand ])rom- 
ises to disinherit him if he marries her, hut it is generahy be- 
heved that the marriage will take place. His sister H. feels 

humiliated and indignant, though I- assures her he will never 

marry the young woman. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio, June 22d, 1862. 

Dear Son : — Letters due from you have not yet arrived : we 
anxiously await them. The first week after getting your letters 
time thes swiftly, but it drags the second, and I impatiently count 
the slowdy passing hours till the message of love is placed in 
my hand. 

Strawberries are very abundant. We had a strawberry short- 
cake for dinner, and it was delicious. You will say that this is 
descending. * * * Well, just take a peep into my sitting 
room, and you will find me by the window nearest the front 
door, now writing, now looking out at a large rose bush heavily 
laden with beautiful white roses ; and if you care to look into my 
mind you will find me busily searching for something that when 
clothed in language will interest you. And shall I search in 
vain? My letters are all so uninteresting, you will surely get 
out of patience. We are now having a dearth of local as well 
as of war news. * '^ * Cora just now ran up to me saying, 
"Do tell uncle fames, and aunt Princess and ^Mary, how much 
I want to see them, and tell them to come home and bring the 
baby, and give them my love." 

Monday 23d. Mr. Tillotsoni i^^s word from Tenn., that 
Eugene is very sick. Fevers are thinning our ranks faster than 



1 Samuel Tillot.son of Marion, as a hu.sband and father was tender and 
loving, and thought a great deal of his family. Was proud of his promising 
son Capt. T. Eugene Tillotson the brave soldier. 

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bullets. Eliza Dickerson is informed that her husband is sick 
in Virginia. 

Mrs. Girard Reynolds, and Mrs. Noah Runyan start for Ft. 
Monroe this week to spend the summer. This -morning's papers 
contain nothing startling, though enough to have startled us one 
year ago. To startle us now, dreadful carnage is required. This 
is one of the horrid effects of war. Col. Charles Ellet, inventor 
of the steam-ram, died at Cairo, Ills., on Saturday last of wounds 
received on the 6th inst. in taking Memphis. He was the only 
one disal)led on the Union side : his loss will be greatly felt.^ 
I hope you are all quite well. My love to all. As God is the 
true source of all our blessings, temporal and spiritual, I pray 
He may have you in his holy keeping. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 23. 1862. • 

My dear Brother : — Yours of the 5th was duly received. 
It was very welcome, and I shall do my best to profit by your 
suggestions. The young folks of the church gave a strawberry 
festival on Friday night. Admission was 10 cents each, and 
•everything furnished was paid for. There were three ice cream 
tables, three strawberry, two lemonade, and one table supplied 
with candy, etc. Each was handsomely trimmed with evergreens. 

But the flower-stand over which Mary Williams and I pre- 
sided was the crowning attraction. It was a large round table, 
•on which stood an open frame work, conical in shape, about five 
feet in height. In the center of this, resting on the table was a 
.shaft that nearly reached the ceiling of the Hall. On the shaft, 
above the frame work, were four crosspieces, from the points 
of which depended shining glass baskets. The whole was fes- 

' On June 6. 1862, a, short eng^agement on the Mississippi tool<: place near 
Memphis, in -^vhich the Confederate fleet of eight vessels, gunboats and rams, 
under Com. Montgomery, was defeated by the Union fleet of thirteen vessels, 
gunboats and rams, under Com. Davis and Col. Charles Ellet, and Memphis 
•was occupied by Union troops. Six of tne Confederate vessels -were demol- 
ished — the boilers -were shot through and the crews scalded to death — one 
•was captured, and one escaped. 

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tooned with evci"g;reens and flowers. Above all was a large- 
beautiful boquet of pink and white peonies. Around the frame 
were shelves, on which were vases filled with boquets, differing 
in style and value, which sold readily. Near the center of the 
cone, and suspended from its arches was a lamp, and four other 
flashing lights at its base. Above the lamp was a large mag- 
nificent bocjuet, almost two feet in height, which the purchaser 
presented to me. I do not think I can give you any clear idea 
or correct view of this flower-stand and its unique appointments. 

I am now reading some of your books. I have just finished, 
Europe, its Scenes and Society, by Daniel C. Eddy, and Wash- 
ington Irving's Bracebridge Hall. I like Irving's writings very 
much, and when I have read all his works ■ — ■ you have them all 
I believe — I will let you know how I like them, each and all. 

Our portico is nearly finished. It will be a great improvement. 
* * * Tell Princess I was very glad to get her letter, and 
cordially thank her for the presents. Her dresses are very pretty, 
and from the description, her bonnet must be. "'' * "^^ Tell 
Princess to say to Miss Annie Turrill that I will answer her 
letter by the next mail, and should be happy to correspond with 
her while she is in London. Love to all. 

Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 24, 1862. 

My dear Son : — I received a very good letter from Princess- 
dated the 25th ult, and will answer it soon. * * * I would 
not think of resigning your office at this time. You will derive 
great advantage from your official residence abroad. You will 
acquire one or more foreign languages, learn the mode of doing 
business in Europe, become acquainted with foreigners of prom- 
inence, and in other ways be benefited. My little grandson will 
learn to talk German, and this in after life will be worth to him 
in this countrv, say $5000. So be content. Contentment is the 
secret of human happiness. Your father, 

T. J. xAnderson.. 

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P. S. — The letter to the Rebel War Department, at Richmond, 
-of the Rebel, Caleb Huse, captain of artillery, C. S. A., captured 
by our blockading- squadron along with other rebel correspond- 
ence, and published in the papers, is much talked about. You 
are certainly entitled to great credit. T. J. A. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 

Washington, June 11, 1862. 
James H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul. Hamburg. 
Sir : — I have transmitted to you under another envelope, The Na- 
tional Intelligencer of this date, in which is printed a letter of Mr. 
Huse, one of the rebel agents in Europe, in which he confesses that 
his plans have been thwarted by the activity of yourself and the Min- 
ister of the United States in London. 

The Department takes pleasure in acknowledging the service thus 
rendered to your country. I am, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Acting Secretary. 

Printed in The National Intelligencer, Washington, June 11. 1862, by 
•order of the State Department. 

PROCUREMENT OF ARMS IN EUROPE BY A REBEL AGENT. 

Liverpool, April 1, 1862. 
To Major I. Gorgus, 

C. S. Artillery. JVar Departuicnt. 
Sir : — I have had great difficulties to contend with in shipping the field 
artillery, which, as I have previously informed you, I should soon send 
•from Hamburg. 

Messrs Eraser, Trenholm & Co., of this city, placed at my disposal 
a fine ship, the Bahama, which I supposed would take all the batteries. 
It is found, however, that the cargo is so difficult to stow that but six 
or seven liatteries can be taken on board the B. 

I went to IIaml)urg to superintend in person the shipment, but find- 
ing soon after my arrival that every step I took was watched by spies 
sent from London by the United States Minister, as well as by the 
United States Consul in Hamburg,^ and learning that this Consul had 
declared publicly that the ship being known to have Confederate govern- 
ment property on board would be captured, after taking legal advice, and 

' James H. Anflerson. 

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carefully considering ihe matter, I determined to leave liamhnra; and 
endeavor to dispose of the batteries to some purchasers of such merch- 
andise in England. 

I accordingly came to this country and sold the whole ten batteries 
to Capt. Blakely, late of the royal artillery, who is now engaged in 
the manufacture of artillery. He is now in Hamburg attending to the 
shipping of the batteries. 

Just after my arrival in England, I received a telegram from Ham- 
burg, informing me that one of the lighters from which the Bahama 
was receiving her cargo had been run into by a British steamer mider 
charge of a Hamburg pilot, and sunk with eight pieces, and carriages, 
etc., on board. There are reasons for thinking that the iiilot was bribed 
to commit the act, and, the inhabitants being unanimously opposed to the 
Confederacy, it is prohaljle that it will be impossible fcjr me to recover 
any damages. I have had the satisfaction, however, this morning, of 
receiving a telegram from Capt. Blakely informing me that the lighter 
had been raised, and the water being fresh the carriages are not materially 
injured. 

Immediately on my arrival in England I set about o])taining a ship 
to take the remainder of the batteries left by the Bahama, and such 
other articles as might be ready. I have the satisfaction of being able 
to inform you that I have succeeded in engaging the steamship "Melita" 
for this work, and that she leaves Liverpool to-day for Hamburg. From 
Hamburg she will proceed to London, and there take on board the fol- 
lowing articles : 

10,000 rifles (about), 10,000 yards light blue cloth, -J.OOI) barrels of 
powder, 3,000 pairs shoes, 5,000 sets accoutrements, 6.000 bayonet 
scabbards, 5,000 knapsacks. 1,000 cavalry belts, 300 cavalry swords, 250 
saddles, etc.. complete. 

In addition to the above I have had offered to me aliout 50,000 pairs 
of French shoes and 25,000 shirts, cotton. If the holder of these shoes 
and shirts will take my order on the Confederate Treasury, payable in 
the Confederacy, in payment for them, I shall purchase them. The 
shoes are the French army pattern, and although not by any means 
equal to shoes that I have purchased in England, still I have thought 
that they would be serviceable, and that possibly they might be much 
needed by the army. 

I have previously informed you that I have had reason to be en- 
tirely satisfied with the London Armstrong Company in all transactions 
that I have had with them. The rifles manufactured by this company 
are so far superior to those obtained from almost every other source, 
and possessing moreover the advantage of being interchangeable. I have 
requested the chairman to hand to me a tender for supplying 40,000 rifles 
from their manufactory. Inclosed I have the honor to submit a copy 
of their proposition. In case the Department should desire me to inake 
this contract, I beg to be informed at the earliest moment, as otherwise 
I may find it imi)ossiblc to arrange the matter. Thinking it possible 

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that the Department might desire a smaller bore, I made inquiries on 
this point, and found that they could make a smaller bore, but not with- 
out altering several of the machines. The exterior of the rifle would 
have to be left the same as at present. It is the opinion of some British 
oifficers that the barrel of the Enfield ritle is too light. Making the bore 
smaller, therefore, would rather be an improvement, in giving greater 
strength to the rifle. The Austrian bore is slightly smaller than the 
English, but almost every other European Government rifle is of a 
larger bore. The Austrian rifle is a very serviceable weapon, though 
to one accustomed to Enfield and Springfield arms they have a very 
rough appearance. 

I am in a position to purchase 20,000 to 30,000 Austrian rifles, at 
about forty shillings each — say about $10.00. At present I am not in 
a position, as regards funds, to make the purchase, inasmuch as I owe 
at least $400,000 more than I have the means of -paying. 

I have thought it necessary, in the discharge of my duty, to press 
the credit of the Confederacy as far as possible without endangering its 
good name; but I must now limit myself to the contracts already made 
and paj' my debts before doing anything more. As soon however, as 
money sufficient for the purpose is received, I shall invest it (unless 
I receive orders to the contrary), in four batteries of Austrian rifled, 
field artillery : thirty-two guns suitable for gun-cotton, as well as 
for powder — which guns I have already secured — and 20,000 rifles now 
in the Vienna Arsenal. Unless I should lie able to purchase a large 
number, like 10,000 to 20,000, I should not, without special orders, de- 
part from the Enfield bore — not that the Austrian bore is too small- — ■ 
but because of the great importance of uniformity of bore. 

It has given me great concern that I have not been able to make 
better arrangements for running in the several cargoes that have been 
forwarded. It is impossible, as I have stated in my previous letter, to- 
obtain vessels with capacity for cargo and coal for so long a voyage^ 
that have at the same time the requisite speed for attempting the block- 
ade. I have endeavored to purchase a very fast paddle-wheel steamer 
to run from Nassau to the coast. But I have no money now for any 
purpose. I should not hesitate to appropriate money to this object, even 
without orders, seeing how long the Gladiator was detained at Nassau, 
and considering the great importance of these goods being safely landed. 

The ''Economist," Lieutenant Fauntleroy, was at Bermuda on the 6th 
day of March, expecting to sail next morning. As we have dates 
from New York to the 20th of March, with no account of the Economist, 
I have strong hopes that she has arrived at a Confederate port. 

The steamer Minna sailed while I was in Hamburg. It was intended 
that she should take five hundred barrels of gunpowder. I found on 
my return to London, however, that the powder had all been shut out 
on account of the vessel being full. Had I been in London I should 
have sent powder in preference to anything else. 

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On board the Minna, contigned to J. Addeiiy & Co., arc the follow- 
ing articles for the Confederate Government ; 

5,900 knapsacks and boards, etc., 1,850 sabres, 5,690 sets of accoutre- 
ments, 5,700 rifles, 1,840 gun slings, 300 pairs of shoes, 99-J sabre belts, 16 
sets saddlery, 4,500 yards cloth, light blue. 

Correct invoices have been sent by the Minna to Nassua. The Melita 
will sail from London with a very valuable cargo in about fifteen days. 
I have requested Lieutenant North, 'of the Navy, to take charge of her, 
but have not yet received his reply. Should it be in the negative I shall 
endeavor to obtain an officer from the Sumter, still lying at Gibraltar. 
The Melita is, for a screw steamer, quite fast, and with an enterprising 
commander on board could, I am confident, be run in. There will be 
several large field howitzers so placed that, without disturbing the general 
cargo, they can be taken to the deck and then mounted, and with these 
quite good defense could be made against wooden gunboats. 

I have the honor to be. 

Your obedient servant, 

Caleb Huse, 
Captain of Artillery. 



THOMAS J. .\NDKR.SON TO MRS. JAMES II. .ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 24, 1862. 

My dear Daughter : — I received with much pleasure yours 
of the 25th uh. The letters enclosed to Annie, atid Mrs. Taylor 
were duly delivered. I hope you may recover your health so 
that you will enjoy your stay in Germanv. 

I was very glad when I learned of the hirtli that gave me 
a grandson. Do not let your pretty hoy bahy lug you too 
much. I once wrote to both you and James that I thought 
you should name your son Thoinas Miller for his grandfathers 
(myself and your father). They are not bad names. I learn 
by your letter that James rises early. This in my opinion will 
be to his advantage. 

We have a fine garden, and our cherry trees are scarcely able 
to bear their load. Peaches are not so plenty as we supposed 
they would be, but we shall have a fair crop of peaches and 
apples. Strawberries, and indeed all sorts of small fruits were 
never more abundant. 

In referring to the war I see you are pretty sanguine of 
peace. But it looks rather gloomy yet : — the great rebel army 

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at Richmond, and McClellan doing nothing. The fleets and the 
western armies have done about all that has been done. True, 
Norfolk arid Yorktown are in our possession, but the rebels aban- 
doned them. We are looking to Fremont to clear Virginia, for 
we fear McClellan^ never will. Not one thing has he done 
with all his big army but lay and review his troops. He ought 
to be removed unless he do something soon. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S.- — I hear that James has been elected a member of the 
American Geographical and Statistical Society. 



AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL SOCIETY. 

New York, May 1, 1862. 

At a meeting of the Society, heid this evening, Joseph P. Thompson, 
D. D., Vice President in the Chair, on the recommendation of the Coun- 
cil, James H. Anderson, U. S. Consul to Hamburg, was duly constituted 
and declared to be an Ex-officio Member of the Society. I certify this 
to be a true extract from the records of the Society. 

Witness the seal of the Society, this first day of May, 1862. 
(Seal.) Wm. Coventry H. Waddell, 

Recording Secretary. 

Officers of the Society : 

Council • — Hiram Barney, Charles P. Daly, V. P. Ex-ofhcio, Cyrus 
W. Field, George Folsam. 

Henry Grinnell, President ex officio. 

S. Homans, D. Cor. Sec. ex-offlcio, Henry V. Poor, 

Frank Moore, Treas, cx-oMcio, Henry E. Pierrepont, 

Arch'd Russell, V. P., ex~ofRcio, Era's A. Stout, F. Cor. Sec. ex- 
ofUcio, 

Jos. P. Thompson. V. P. ex-officio. W. P. Trobridge, Lib. e.x-off., 

W. C. H. Waddell, R. Sec. ex-off. 

1 Gen. George B. McClellan was by far the greatest drillmaster, and 
the most popular officer in the service. After his retirement from the army, 
I often met him in Dresden, Saxony, at his house, and elsewhere, and found 
him modest, candid, captivating, and scholarly. At the head of a small 
force he was a fine dashing officer and won victories, but a great command 
paralyzed him. 

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AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL SOCIETY. 

New York, May 28, ISirl. 
To James H. Anderson, Esq., 

Consul of the United States at Hamburg. 
Sir : — It is my pleasant duty respectfully to communicate to you the 
enclosed Resolution of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, 
adopted at a meeting held on the first day of May 1862, and by which 
you are constituted an ex-officio member. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, with much respect. 
Your obedient servant, 

Francis A. Stout, 
Foreign Corresponding Secretary, Am.. Geo. and Sta. Society 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 6, 1862. 

Dear Princie : — I intended to have written you on the 
Fourth, whilst our folks were away celebrating the day on Pey- 
ton Hord's stock farm, four miles north of town, but I was other- 
wise occupied. The Fourth was pleasantly spent in Hord's Grove. 
Peyton and his estimable family were extremely kind to all the 
participants. Since Peyton's sickness he has * * * and it 
is now believed that he will be able to weather the financial 
storm. 

I attended church this morning although it was very warm — 
the warmest day I think we have had — and heard Rev. Leonard 
B. Gurley'^ preach one of his almost inimitable sermons. Text : 
"A pure river of water of life, proceeding out of the throne of 
God." His delineations were beautiful. It was quite a relief 
from the monotony of Mr. Newton's sermons. Well, the Con- 
ference Year will have almost drawn to a close ere this reaches 
you : then we shall have a change. 

I have been reading a treatise Princie, on exercise for delicate 
persons. It recommends active hard exercise out where the sun 
shines. Exercise after sundown and before sunrise is not in- 
vigorating, but invalids should take it after breakfast and before 



^ L. B. Gurly, D. D., was quite famous as a pulpit orator; he was also 
an author of some note and a poet. He was born at Norwieh. Conn.. March 
-4, 1804, of Irish parentage, and died at Delaware, O., March 26, 1880. 

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dinner, and always where the sun shines. And in warm weather 
the clothing- should be light. I hope you may soon regain your 
health. 

July 7th. It is still warm and I am so overcome by the heat 
that it appears impossible for me to write. I wonder if we had 
any weather so warm last summer. 

I have a shocking story of scandal involving the good name 
of prominent citizens to tell you, and I have been dreading it 
because it is always disagreeable to detail such infamies.^ 
:i: ;!= * They made the * * * a meeting place. * * * 

After Judge B who had gone in search of Mr. , 

came back, he told Mrs. , that Mr. was the 

most ])enitent man he ever saw, and would give worlds to 
blot out this transgression. But too late! too late! ! were ring- 
ing in his ears ; staring him in the face. * * * With much 
love to all, I remain, 

Your affectionate mother. 



IlIO^IAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 22, 1862. 

My DEAR Son : — Yours of the 28th ult. was duly received. 
I was much pleased to hear from you. Your letter contained 
a power of attorney to collect a deceased soldier's pay ; also 
your photograph likeness. You appear slim and wrinkled in 
the face. If living in Hamburg is undermining your health 
I would not stay nmch longer. This is a subject that you should 
seriously consider. I shall promptly attend to the collection of 
the deceased soldier's pay. 

Mr. — has returned home, and I think he feels as sneak- 
ing and guilty as a sheep thief, or as the saying, a sheep killing 
dog, for of all dirty men of whom I have any account he has 
proven himself the dirtiest. What a fall ! A man of his stand- 
ing in church and state ! ! I think you have heretofore received' 

1 That no hearts may ache, I refrain from publishing this very lengthy, 
painfully sensational letter, written more than forty years ago about people 
and their doings in two or more states. 

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some account of his recent conduct, and that of . He 

especially has put the capsheaf on whatever is low and disgrace- 
ful. No hrothel pimp could have stooped lower. His letters 
are too vile. * * * 

Charles Tillotson is now at home and is getting well. He 
received his discharge from the army in consequence of severe 
sickness. His brother Eugene is still in the service in Ten- 
nessee or Alabama. He is a second lieutenant; part of the 
time acting captain. His captain, James Brown, resigned on 
account of sickness, and is at home. Capt. Albert H. Brown, 
of the 4th (3hio, also resigned because of the sickness of his 
wife. She is very low, and can live but a short time.^ Albert 
has already been appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 96th Ohio, 
now^ forming under the late call, but can't do anything during his 
wife's illness. 

I will have the fence around the Old Prairie Farm repaired 
as soon as I can get rails made. Rail-makers are scarce, be- 
sides the rails must be hauled three miles. Well fenced, the 
place will rent better. 

Judge Ozias Bowen is now putting up a large expensive 
brick dwelling house, (to which I think I alluded in a former 
letter,) on his ample grounds on Berry's Hill. It will cost not 
less than $20,000. His architect and builder is Charles Smith, 
known as Boss, or Wooden Charley. It will be well built for 
Smith never slights his work. 

Peyton Hord is busily engaged buying cattle. I drove with 
him yesterday to the stock farm of- Ben. Waddel,- of whom 

^ Mrs. Brown was a worthy woman, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Elder, of Marion, formerly of Dundee, Scotland. Col. Brown's second wife 
was also a respectable worthy woman, and the owner of a small farm near 
Centerburg, O., but she was by no means the equal of Miss Elder in men- 
tality, culture, physical charms, or social prominence. 

" John and Margaret Giffin Waddel came from near Wheeling, W. Va., to 
Marion Co. in 1820, and settled on a farm of 160 acres. Here their son 
Benjamin was born Feb. 23, 1829. He was always industrious, frugal, and 
saving, and for many years he has been considered one of the richest farmers 
in the county. When a young man he was called "Stingy Ben," in middle 
life he was known as "Lucky Ben," and now, this charitable old man is 
hailed as "Happy Ben." Since early manhood he has been a farmer, stock 
grower, and money lender, and has amassed a fortune of about Three Hun- 
•dred Thousand Dollars. He was married to Miss Jane Osborn, a good hearted, 
charitable young woman, Jan'y 8, 1852. He has already given away, to his 
three sons and others. One Hundred Thousand Dollars. The Benjamin Wad- 

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he houglit 68 head of prime steers at $3 per cvvt. He now has 
on hand 24 car loads of fat cattle. I think Peyton is on the 
safe side. 

Though nionev is very abundant, the prospect of affairs in 
our country just now is rather gloomy. We must however and 
will subdue the rebels finally ; but whether they will ever be- 
come reconciled under the government of the United States, 
especially those in the Gulf or Cotton States is uncertain. .Slav- 
ery however has received such a blow that it cannot recover, and 
the sooner we get rid of it and colonize the negroes in a country 
apart from the whites, the better. 

Doctor Bridge^ is a surgeon in the army — southern por- 
tion — under Gen. Halleck. Government bonds are so high that 
1 did not purchase any. Wheat, the country over is excellent, 
and the yield good. Grass was never better; corn is not so 
good. My love to Princess and the children. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jwly 22, 1862. 

My dear Princess : — Yours of the 5th came duly to hand 
containing amongst other things two photographs of yourself. 
I was glad to get them. I think the pictures good, only that 
long pale face troubles me. Mrs. Dickerson kindly permitted me 
to read the letter she received from you. 

del's Children's Home, which he gave to the county, cost him upwards of 
Fifty Thousand Dollars more. He is now (1903), erecting a Home for Aged 
Women, which will cost more than the Children's Home, and this will be 
given to the Waddcl Ladies' Home Association. His gifts and benefactions, 
when the Ladies' Home is completed, will amount to $200,000 or more. He 
is one of the good citizens of his county, and state, and should be held in 
grateful remembrance. The talented architect, Mr. Wilbur T. Mills, of Co- 
lumbus. Ohio, prepared his plans, etc. 

' Dr. W. W. Bridge, M. D.. of Marion, an energetic man, and good 
physician, died as surgeon of the 46th reg. O. V. I., at Marietta. Ga. His 
wife, Phoebe W. Davids, was a sister of John E. Davids, of the Marion 
bar. who practiced law a few years, and then with Judge J. J. Williams, 
opened a drygoods store in Marion in 1845 or 1846. 

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Small fruits were never so abundant here. We have had 
all the cherries we could use or t;ive away for five weeks or 
more, and the late ones are still hanging- thick on the trees. 
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and cur- 
rants are plentiful. The apple, peach and plum crops will not 
be full, owing" to an insect that took it into its malicious head to 
destroy them, and partly succeeded. 

, the arch-villain has returned to town, and certain 

men of his own stripe arc making quite a pet of him. He mani- 
fests great penitence I am informed, and bursts into tears when 
spoken to. His fits of weeping may be genuine ; it may be that 
he is penitent ; I am sure he is sorry the world knows it all ; 
but his heart was not moved when he was crushing his poor 
* * * She says he is the most wretched nran on earth, but 
her meaning is : Can I forgive him ? * * * I cannot write 
more.^ I wish you to send the babv's picture. ( iod bless you 
all. Adieu. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 3, 1862. 

AIy dear Sister: — I received your letter of the 17th ult. 
yesterday, and read it with great interest. I am glad that you 
are getting better. If you were at home you would no doubt 
be benefited; we are now having beautiful weather. I^ast night 
I had a dream about you, Mary and baby. You had all 
come home, and a'ou and Mary looked quite as when you left, 
and the baby resembled you and was very sweet and good. 

The name of Mrs. Maggie Leonard's baby, that is three 
weeks old, is Mary M. Mrs. Rebecca Beatty, Mrs. Leonard's 
sister, will remove (with her husband of course), the last of 
the month to Philadelphia. Nony Reed,- and Ada Prosser,- 



1 I have thought it advisable to omit the most of this long absorbing 
letter. 

■-'Miss Soplironia (Nony) Reed, married .John WiUianis. a, suceessful 
business man of Chicago, and Miss Ada Prosser mariied a Mr. Kelley, of 
Kelley's Island, a descendant of the noted Kelley after whom the Island was 

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j^avo lar.^e parties last week, and as tlu-}- wore very pleasant I 
enjoyed them very much. 

l\eeniitin_q- ofiieers are now busily enj^a^ed .^eltini;- and trying' 
t(i i^el more volunteers, but 1 am \-ery mueb afraid they will not 
g'et the requisite number without draitins;-. Why don't you have 
baby's photosrai)h taken and sent us ? In namino- the baby let 
me suggest the name of ("lay, alter brother t'lay. It is a very 
dear name in our family. 

Now I shall say something alxnit my new dresses, whieh I 
ordered from New York. * * *As I am going to answer Miss 
Annie 'i'urrill's letter to-day, T must shorten this. Mother who 
is not well to-day, recpiests me to say that she reeeived your let- 
ter of Jul\- I -Mil and will answer it next mail day. * * * 

"S'ours atl'eetionately, 

Annie. 



iiioivtAS j. A^'l)I•:l^so^- lo jamics ii. andkkson. 

Marion, ()iiio, Aug. 4, iS()_'. 

Mn- 1)i;ak Son: — 1 received yours of the ijlh ult. and was 
mneh pkast'd to hear that )on, I'rincie, and the children were 
so well. I also received a volume of correspondence between 
the Di'partment of State, and l'. S. Ministers antl C'misuls, which 
I read with pleasure. 

\\ e are very busy at this time raising volunteers for the 
96th Regiment, to meet in ])art the late call of the I'resident 
for three lunuhA-d thousand more men. Whether we shall be 
able to raise our (|uoia is doul)tfnl- - \ _i,() more men. Nearly all 
that volunteer aw I'liion men, for strait-laced Democrats^ 
are yet s_\in])athizing with the South. l.ieut. Col. J. 11. (Kid- 
man and Captain I''.. I'. ( )lnistead. with our Marion bovs in the 
4th ( )liio Regiment, are said to 1k> near Richmond, \'a., where 
they arrived after the late terrible battles on and near the Chick- 



niitni'd. Ada's sister LsalnUc, married Jiulsp Caleb H. Norris. the eminent 
.lurist iitivv on (lie beneli of the Cireuit Court. Miss Reed, and tlie Misses 
Prosser, were liris'lit attraetive youns' ladies. 

' .\ few montlis later, Democrat volunteers wei-e about as numerous as 
Kepiiljliean. 

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ahoniiny — seven days coiitiiuunis hard li^liiino-.' We are daily 
expectiiio- to hear o\ another ^real lialtle near Riehniond. luij^ene 
Tillotsim, oi the ()4th, is in Alabama. lie is now a -'d lient., 
and one o( the best ottieers in his einnpanw * '■= * 

Wheat is selling;- at 80 to Sj eenls per Imshel. ilav was 
ne\-er more ahnndant. \\\)ol eommands from 40 to 50 eents 
per ])onnd. Old Bobby Kerr- sold his elip for $().ooo. 'J\ax- 
land money is eoniinj;- in slowly. We have several pieees the 
lime lor the redemption of whieh is ont. All may redeem, how- 
e\er. and the sooner the belter. Wnn father, 

W T. Am)i:rson. 



I\1KS. rilOlMAS J. ANDKRSON TO JAINIF.S IT. ANOF.RSON. 

Marion, ("^iiio, An;;-. 17, i8(Sj. 
Afv niv\R Son: — This is a beantifnl eool M;i\-, after some 
verv warm weather, and this is our Onarlerlv ALeelint:' season. 



1 'rhc S('\on Days' Battles noar Richmond, alons the margins of the 
Chiokahominy, liclwciu the Union and C^onfodtM-ato forces, l)C!;an June 2f>, 
and continued (<> .lul\- 2, 1802. The army of Cen. Mc(^l(>llan nnnibei-iMl '.iii.OOO 
to 0,").000 men. thai of Gen. L,ce Sfi.OOO on .hinc 'Ji;. While McCMellan was 
finietly resting. Lee uiiiled with .Tackson to crush l'oil<>r. who was norlli 
of the Chickah(>min\-. Tliey defeated him at Oainrs' .^^lls. McOlellan's com- 
munications witli tile north lu'iui;- lliiis cm olT. In' decided to clian!;c his 
base to the James, which lie accomplished h,\ hard lii;htini;- every sti^p of 
the way. From this base he was soon foi-ced to \\ithdi-aw and bring the 
campaign to an end. During the seven days, the b.ittles fought were 
IVIeehanicsville, Gaines' Mills, Savage's St.iliou. l^'rayser's Farm. White Oak 
Swamp, and Malvern Hill. 

The entire I^nion loss in these battles is oiruially stated at 1.^.219. of 
whom ir)S2 were killed, 770!) wounded, ai\d C'.i.'.S missing, lu l.tn^'s report 
the OonfiMJerate losses amounted to ll.i;i,".. of whom 2172 wert- killt-d. 11.77-1 
wounded, and :!:i:i nussing. Adding IMagruder's loss.-s. estimal.'d at l.'>00. 
makes the entire Oonfederate loss exceed 10.000. 

-Robert Kerr. ,\ tall ungainly man of Scotch-Irish descent, was born 
in Pennsylvania. October 27, 1S07, and settled in Marion county aI>out 1S30. 
As a farmer and stock-raiser he became very rich, owning thousands of 
acres of tine land, thousands of sheep, great herds of catlle, and' much 
other propei'ty. real and personal. 'l'i> iwo colleges he gave .S7i>.hi)0, He 
was an honest, uneducated man of .ibilily. and great industry, but was 
neither haudsomc> ner whoI(\s(ime in appearance In bis palin.v da>'s he was 
president of two or more b.inks, and relished his stirru|i-cup. but his raiment 
was evidently neither cut nor made in I'.iris. He withdrew from the Dis- 
ciples of Christ, on account of "the unchristian conduct of some of the 
brethren"; and died of old age. and a fracture of the hip joint, leaving a 
vast estate for his descendants to wrangle (i\.a-. He died ,lul,\' i:'.. ISSS, 
•and was buried at Kirkpatriek, in Marion County. 

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ihe last tor the year. I was at church to-day and heard Mr. 
Wilson^ preach one of his very eloquent sermons. His subject, 
the announcement of the advent of the Savior. ''Behold I bring 
vou good tidings of great joy." I wish you could have heard 
him ; his imagery was so sublime, his descriptions so beautiful 
and striking, his pathos so moving. The scene was brought 
right before us. It is a privilege to hear Mr. Wilson preach. 
J suppose you hear such sermons in Hamburg? In referring 
to your friend Mr. Fay,^ you say he advises the reading of 
the bible. I indorse all he says, and recommend it strongly. 
We find in the bible much to comfort, console, soothe and in- 
struct. I read a portion of the scriptures every day. God will 
not hold us guiltless if we disregard his command to search 
the scriptures. 

Our late war news, as you have no doubt observed, is not 
favorable ; and you have no doubt read the President's call 
for three hundred thousand men, and his second call for three 
hundred thousand more. Well our county has furnished its 
quota under the first call. It is said that nearly all who volun- 
teered were Republicans, that the Democrats hang back, and 
that many of them do all they can to prevent enlistments. The 
government is now l)ringing down its strong arm on the dis- 
loyal of every shade and degree, and some of "ours" are be- 
ginning to haul in their horns. Our best young men have left 
for the army. Some of their names occur to me : John B. Wil- 
liams, Marshall Godman, Will. Davis,^ George Durfee, Mr. 
Humphrey, Mr. Sefifner, Tom Zuck. Sam. Dumble, Laurin Dewey 
Bowen, Marion Corn, Walter James, Justin Bunker, Sam Ter- 
pany, Wesley Fribley and John Bartram (nephew of the judge). 

1 An eloquent entertaining Methodist preacli'ei- was Rev. T. H. Wilson, 
and a good story-teller. 

- Hon. Theo. S. Fay, author and diplomatist, born in New York city 
February 10. 1807; a true, loyal, American citizen, and a brilliant writer. 

=> William Z. Davis became a great lawyer, and is now Supreme Judge 
of Ohio. (Many of his comrades became prominent.) The first wife of 
Judge Davis was a daughter of Thomas Search, Jr., a Marion merchant. 
His second wife was Miss Jessie Myer, of Columbus, to whom he was 
married September !), 1!)0:{. As stenographer and typewriter in the office 
of Hon. E. O. Randall, the Supreme Court reporter. Miss Myer first became 
known to the Judge. The Court's ohitcr dictum would seem to make it a 
case of love at first sight. Mrs. Jessie Myer Davis is a life member of the 
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. 

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Isaac Concklin^ wanted to go. but the colonel, (his father),, 
objected. 

]Vlrs. \\ illianis feels dreatlfuUy l)ecanse her son John en- 
listed. \\'e have just received the sad news of the death of 
young- Walter James of this place, a son of the judge. Henry 
Shepherd- came all the way from Indiana, and Benny Williams^ 
from Missouri, to go with the Marion boys. 

August i8th. The 96tli (one of our regiments), is now in 
camp near Delaware. Your father and Annie are now paying 
cousin William Williams and family a visit at their lovely place- 
near Eden,-* and expected to visit the camp yesterday. No news- 
paper was issued this week as all the printer boys have gone tO' 
the war. 

Don't suffer yourself to become excited because of our re- 
verses. God has a great controversy with us, as well as with 
the South, for we have winked at the iniquity of human bon- 
dage too long. We must suffer reverses, but God will bring us 
off conquerors. 

Your father was in Wyandot county a few days ago, and 
saw Mr. R. N. Taylor,'"" who said if the governor would give 
him a colonel's connnission, and authorize him to recruit a black 
regiment, that he would go to work at once and do it. But 
our government has not yet authorized the enlisting of negrO' 
soldiers. It may come to it yet. We take negro slaves 
wherever we find them, and use them as work hands in and 
about the army. The Taylors are well. Mrs. T. is much con- 
cerned about Princie's health, and wished me to write asking 
you to come home. If it would save her life, or even insure 
her health, I should say come home. I should 1)e very glad to 
see vou, but I would not dare advise you in this hour of our 
country's peril to take such a step. Possibly you can be more 



1 Isaac Concklin owns a great body of fine land in Missouri, where 
tie resides. 

- Son of Rev. I. N. Sheplierd. 

3 Now a prominent banker, and son of Walter WMlliams formerly of 
Marion. 

* William Williams, a prominent citizen of Delaware county. C, and a 
ccusin of Thomas J. Anderson. 

5 Son of David Taylor of Columbus, Ohio, and nephew of Gov. John- 
Brough. 

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.useful where you are than any one else. O, I should be glad 
to see you ! But my wishes are not to be thought of. 

Your affectionate mother. 

p, s. — Dr. Edson B. Olds, of Circleville, Ohio, a former 
member of Congress, was arrested a few days ago for disloyal 
utterances, and sent to Fort Warren. ^ Clement L. Vallandigham 
will probably share the same fate soon. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 20, 1862. 

My dear Son : — Yours of the 26th ult. came to hand. It 
gave us much pleasure to learn you were all so well. We are 
now sending off another lot of volunteers. We sent off last 
week 140, and are making up another company. We must and 
will* conquer Rebeldom, but it will take men and money to do 
it. We are now having some splendid victories on the Missis- 
sippi. Our western men are the men to fight. Be assured our 
Union will be preserved if Europeans only keep hands off and 
let us manage our own aft'airs. 

I returned last night from the Congressional Convention at 
Delaware. We yesterday nominated Col. James H. Godman, 
who is now in McClellan's army, for Congress. This district is 
composed of the counties of Delaware, Union, Marion, Mor- 
row and Richland. He will be elected by a handsome ma- 
jority.- All the talk was of the war. 

No "Marion Unionist" was issued, as Sam Dumble has gone 
to the war. Printers are scarce. Help of all kinds is so scarce 
tliat old men are compelled to work beyond their strength; but 
work nmst be done to support so large an army as we have in 
tlic tield. Your father, 

T, J. Anderson. 



1 He was long imprisoned at Fort LaFayette. See Three Decades of 
Federal Legislation, Ijy S. S. Cox, p. 226. 

- Col. Godman was defeated. Was afterwards nominated and elected 
Auditor of State. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES U. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 31, 1862. 

Dear I^rincie: — Tell James I am glad he feels his coun- 
try's woes but not to despond. There is no cause for despon- 
dency. Never admit that we won't put down the rebellion, for 
we certainly will, let the cost be what it may. We have just 
received Gen. Pope's official report of yesterday's battle at Ma- 
nassas. The rebels lost, it is reported. 15,000 men, we 10,000 
— awful slaughter. It was a complete victory for Pope, whose 
troops pursued the enemy. I will try to give you the result 
before mailing this letter. The battle was fought on the Old 
Bull Run battle field, l)ut the running was on the other side 
this time. 

You mav say to Europeans that there is no derangement 
of business at the Xorth. Our absent troops are missed by 
their friends, but business is carried on as formerly. 

W. E. Scofiekh has returned, and is getting recruits for 
his regiment. He and other recruiting officers are succeeding 
very well. The 4th of September is the time set for the draft, 
but there will be none here I think. 1 am sorry for it, for 
nearly all are Republicans- that have volunteered, leaving the 

* * * at home to carry the elections. But never mind: it 
will come around all right. * '" '" 

You think I blamed the most. I do not recollect 

how I expressed myself. In such cases we generally blame 

* * * the most because they :ire generally more * * * 
Indeed in this case he is much more to blame. There have 
been devolpments since it first came out that make his Ijlack- 
ness blacker still. He professed to sympathize with her in her 
unfortunate situation, and in the guise of a friend entwined him- 
self around her. Old enough to be her father, he should have 



ro^l7'"^?illianr^7^ofield was a graduate of the O. W. University, 
and a patriotic young lawyer of fine parts. After the ^^J^^. /°^« *« 
eminence in his profession. He was a follower and fr.end of Gen. Geo 
B McClellan. Two sons of Capt. Scofleld are prominent members of the 
Marion bar, namely, William E. and George B. Scofleld. 

= A few months later, those not Republicans entered the army m great 
numbers, evincing the most patriotic spirit, and sutlcred and died hke 
brave men on the field of battle. 

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■protected liis neii;lil)or's daughter. Still all this is no excuse for 
her. She is now at her father's where she has been * * * 

He is now at home trying to look brave, but all the while 
shows his guilt in his face. He probably thinks he can live 
it down, but is mistaken. Those horrid letters of his must for- 
ever stamp him with infamy. * * * 

Monday Afternoon, Sept. i. The war news (from the seat 
of war), this morning. is not so good, but I have no fears of 
the result.^ A regiment left Camp Delaware this morning for 
the defense of Kentucky. A company will leave here day after 
to-morrow for Camp Delaware, and as soon as clothed and 
equipped will receive marching orders. 

Dr. Davis- has been examining men all the week who are 
subject to draft, but who allege that they are unfit for military 
duty. It is said to be rare fun to sit in the court-house, and 
hear the excuses made by cowards and traitors. A healthier 
looking set of men I am told, has not been seen around the 
court house within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. To 
be sure there are honorable exceptions. 

Princie, I think you must have been almost out of patience 
with me for saying so much on the subject of exercise. It was 
not that I thought you lacked energy. — far from it, but I feared 
you would spend your time over sewing or painting when you 
should be in the open air. Your statement that you were able 

1 The Second Bull Run, or battle of Manassas, Va., was fought August 
20-30, 1S82. Gen. Pope commanding 40,000 Union troops, was defeated by 
X-ee and Jackson. See Dictionary of United States History. ''Pope's offlcial 
statement of the number he had engaged is 55,000 men. * * It is probable 
his force outnumbered Lee's by at least 10,000 men." See the Military 
liistory of Ohio. 

Another high authority says there were about 70,000 men under Pope, 
snd about 50,000 under Lee, that Pope's losses amounted to 14,500 and 
Lte's to 9,500, and that Pope on September 1st withdrew to the defenses 
about Washington, fighting the battle of Chantilly en route. Greely's Ameri- 
can Conflict makes the losses heavier on both sides. In Pox's Losses in 
the Civil War, it is stated that from August 16 to the 31st inclusive. Pope 
lost 1,747 killed, 8,452 wounded, and 4,263 captured and missing; total 
14,462; and that Lee lost 1,481 killed, 7,627 wounded, and 89 captured and 
missing; total 9,107. 

- B. W. Davis, M. D., father of Judge William Z. Davis, came to Mar- 
ion county, with his parents in 1830, taught school till 1849, and then 
commenced practicing medicine. He opened an ofTice in Marion in 1860, and 
became quite prominent as a physician. He was a member of the M. E. 
Church, and a good citizen. He was born in Loudon "county, Va., February 6, 
1813, and died in Marion April 16, 1891. He inherited good Virginia Revo- 
'lutionary blood. 

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to walk four or tive miles quite aslouished nie. The slrong'est 
lady here wmild nut think of such a thing. Indeed L don't 
think such a lengthy walk good for you. It may do for Ger- 
man ladies, but not American. A short walk of a quarter of 
a mile in the morning, in adtlition to the exercise you take 
in the garden, and grounds of your suburban home would be 
quite sufficient I think. 

Mrs. Dr. Gailey^ will be married next Monday to "Cali- 
fornia Powers," and with her two children will leave imme- 
diately for his home on the Pacific. She appears happy, and 
looks as gay as a bird. Mrs. Princess Copeland- kindly inquires 
after you. Princie, why has your friend Airs. Isabelle W. Tur- 
rill^ gone to Brussels, instead of London, her old home? On 
vour account I wish she had remained at Hamburg. Well, 
how are Mary and Jamie? Cora says, "say to Madie her fox 
and geese are still here, reminding us of her." 

Your afi;ectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Sept. i, 1862. 

My dear Son : — Your letter of the 9th ult. came duly to 
hand and gave me much satisfaction. We are very busy here. 
The government authorities are making ready for a draft as 
we cannot raise sufficient soldiers by volunteering. Our county 
has sent forward something like 1,100 volunteers, but that is 
not enough. We must have resort to the draft. You zvould be 

1 Mrs. Gailey. nee Susan A. Pancoast, was a verj' bright attractive 
woman, and related to the celebrated Dr. Pancoast of Philadelphia. Her 
first husband Dr. J. D. Gailey, (father of Dr. C. Pancoast Gailey, M. D., 
ex-mayor of Marion), was a man of great energy, and a successful physician. 
He was born in Pennsylvania, September 21, 1820, and died in Marion Sep- 
tember 9, 1856. Judge Thomas J. Anderson was the administrator of his 
estate. Mrs. Galley's second husband was Rdward E. Powers, who died 
in San Francisco. November 20. 1864. 

2 Daughter of Dr. Alson Norton, M. D., and niece of the wealthy 
capitalist. Orange Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, and wife of Earl Percy Cope- 
land, a Vjank president. 

3 An elegant English lady of wealth and refinement, and a warm 
friend of Mrs. James H. Anderson, who resided on the continent to educate 
her children. 

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astonislicd to find so many sick and infirni men. The greater 
portion of the volunteers are Union men, or in other words 
Repnbhcans. The Democrats as a rule will not volunteer. There 
arc honc)ral)le exceptions, hut as a body they have continued to 
go against the war, and fight the Administration. 

Before you get this you will have heard of another Bull 
Run, between Cien. Pope's, and Lee and Jackson's armies. It 
was fought on the old battle field. It has been a hard-fought 
battle, and it is not yet over. This is Monday, and the battle 
began last Friday, August 29th. On that day we drove the 
enemy across Bull Run.^ We have not yet received any re- 
liable particulars of our losses. Colonel Cantwell of the 826. 
Ohio was killed. He lived in Kenton, Ohio. Scofield and many 
other Marion boys belong to this regiment. James S. Robinson 
of Kenton is its major. We hear that the regiment is about 
annihilated. Scofield is at home promoting volunteering to fill 
up the 82d, so he escaped the slaughter. 

Lyman Spaulding has volunteered. His regiment, the 121st, 
leayes here for Camp Delaware to-morrow, thence it goes to 
Kentucky. Lyman is under Captain Wilson Martin the United 
Brethren preacher. William P. Reed^ of Delaware, the attor- 
ney, is Its colonel. 

Cyrus M. Seibert died last week. He has been sick since 
last Spring. His first attack was bleeding at the lungs. His 
sickness was no doubt caused by drinking, but he has not dis- 
sipated for over one year. He was supposed to be burnt out. 
Cyrus, son of John and Sarah, died August 24, 1862, aged 38 
years. ^ 

Our 96th Regiment left Camp Delaware yesterday. In it 
are many Marion boys : Capt. Samuel Coulter a United Breth- 

1 Early on the morning- of the 30th Gen. Pope, wrote: "We fought a 
terrific battle here yesterday, * * the enemy was driven from the field 
which I now occupy, * * the enemy is retreating to the mountains." A 
day later Pope di.scovered his mistake. 

- Reed, though successful as a lawyer was a very poor colonel. 

3 Cyrus was the last child of the family. The following printed an- 
nouncement came to me in Germany on a small sheet of note paper with 
black borders: "Died. In Marion, Ohio, August 24, 1862, C. M. Seibert, son 
of John and Sarah Seibert, aged 38 years, 9 months, and 16 days." He was 
the only child of his parents, who came to Marion from Pennsylvania, 
early in IBTO. They were honest, well-to-do people,— Pennsylvania Dutch — 
whose ancestors came from Germany long before the American Revolution. 

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ren preacher, our neighbor John B. Wilhanis, a second hen- 
tenant, Wesley Fribley, Tom. Zuck, Laurin Dewey Bovvcn, and 
many others. Judge Bowen did not Hke to have Laurin enhst, 
but he would do so. George Smith bought John B. Williams' 
hardware store after the latter volunteered. His l)rother. Jay 
Williams, must now manage his mother's affairs. 

Little Wyandot county has sent over 1,300 soldiers to the 
field. She has done well. I sent your photograph to D. S. 
Miller, by Mr. Thomas W Reber/ the day it came to hand. 

Our town is very scarce of young men of worth. The trifling 

ones whom we could well spare will not go to war. G 's 

brothers-in-law, M — "s boys, W. H — 's two younger brothers, 
and others of that class are lounging about town. Young Mr. 
Uhler is now at home recruiting for the 4th Ohio Regiment. 
So he also missed the second hard-fought battle of Bull Run. 
Col. James H. Godman has not been at home for about a year. 
He is a brave man. 

My Dear Daughter Princess : — I hope }OU will regain your 
health so as to return home and enjoy life with your friends. 
Give grandfather's love to Mary, and kiss my dear little "Dutch" 
grandson for me. I should be glad to see him, and to hear 
him and Mary and their parents talk German. 1 remain alTec- 
tionately. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion Ohio, Sept. 16, 1862. 

Dear Son :— You must excuse this letter, for the time I had 
intended to appropriate to writing has been occupied by unex- 



1 Reber settled in "Wyandot county, in 1853, buying- the rich and beauti- 
ful "Armstrong Bottom." He was born June 17. 1806, and died December 
8, 1895, leaving an estate valued at $300,000. He lived and died in the large 
brick house erected in 1839 by Silas Armstrong, the good Wyandot Indian. 
He was honest but very frugal. He was long president of the First National 
Bank of Upper Sandusky. His favorite beverage was Old Tom Gin, which 
he usually bought by the case from Wm. Taylor of Columlnis, O. He was 
born on his father's large farm in Fairfield county, O., in which county he 
was married June 24, 18,30, to Miss Rachel Allen, daughter of Dwyer Allen, 
a wealthy philanthropist. They had eight children, of whom Sarah, Mary 
Ann, John, Lenox, Albert and Lucy, are now (1903) living. 

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pected visitors — Mr. and Mrs. William Williams of Eden. They 
have just gone away, and I have but a short time to write be- 
fore the mail closes. This is the day designated for the draft, 
and it has again lieen put off. It provokes me for I wanted 
to see some of the ''■'- * ''' drafted. There is not one * * * 
to five * * * in our army from Ohio, or from any other 
state, as I am informed and believe. So our folks will not 
succeed at the polls this fall; the elections will be carried by our 
opponents.'^ 

I was at Camp Delaware last week to bid L. S. good-by. He 
belongs to the I2ist regiment, O. V. I., which left Delaware the 
day we did. They received their arms and other equipments last 
Thursday at Columbus, and then proceeded to Cincinnati. Their 
destination is Kentucky I presume. 

Lyman Spaulding is orderly sergeant, with some prospect of 
promotion.- His post is in some respects the most laborious in 
the army, though he is exempt from guard, trench and like duties. 
He has to write all the time having all the accounts to keep 
both for and against the soldiers. He is allowed a clerk how- 
evef when he needs one. He had two men w^riting all of the 
day we were in camp, but there was a great press of business 
on the eve of the regiment's departure. After breaking camp he 
can only have one assistant, nor always even one, for the men 
must bear arms. The men are charged with what they get, and 
credited when they receive less than their daily allowance. Some 
of our men have money, and choose to buy their provisions rather 
than draw from the quarter-master. Each of such gets credit for 
i6 cents per day. It is the further duty of the orderly sergeant 
to call the roll twice a day, calling each man's name three times it 
there be no answer, to form the company for drill, to detail the 
guard, to report absentees, etc. 

This morning our news from the seat of war was very 
good.-"' At South Mountain the rebels retreated. * * * 

1 The Democrats carried the State, and the Eighth Congressional Dis- 
trict, defeating Col. J. H. Godman for Congress. 

-' Spaulding was soon promoted to a captaincy. He was a graduate of 
the O. W. University, a lawyer, and a high-minded honorable man, but 
"the flowing bowl" was his undoing. He graduated August 4, 1847, in the 
class with Prof. R. W. McFarland, LTj. D., ex-president of Miami University. 

^ Battle of South Mountain, Maryland, fought during Lee's invasion 
of Maryland, September 14, 1862. The main body of Lee's army, and sev- 

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In your position one's highest ambition should be to so 
serve his country as to gain an enviable, nay imperishable name. 
And mark my words, those who serve their country in this 
crisis faithfully, will be the men of the country hereafter. Those 
now in position, who emerge from the clouds of war which 
overhang the country, unspotted and free from the breath of 
calumny, will hear the voice of a grateful people calling them 
to the councils of the nation.^ Zealous patriotism, honesty of 
purpose, and uprightness of deportment will enable one to keep 
his footing, and occupy high ground at the close of the conflict. 

I don't remember whether T informed you that we received 
from the Department of State, a short time ago, a volume en- 
titled "Insurgent Privateers in Foreign Ports, 1862," in which 
a dispatch from Mr. Seward to you, and two of your dis- 
patches to the Secretary of State appear. I was glad to perceive 
that you had the approval of the government, and hope you 
will always sustain yourself so well. 

If Princie should go to the seashore she should be very care- 
ful for exposure is sometimes hurtful, and bathing easily over- 
•done. The Tillotsons who are at home, send love to all. 

Mrs. Powers, who has left with her family for San Fran- 
cisco, wishes Princie to write to her. 

rs " Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Sept. 29. 1862. 
Dear Princie: — * * * On Satiu'day last Annie re- 
ceived from James two pairs of beautiful sleeve-buttons that were 

eral divisions of Burnside's column of McClellan's army wei-e engaged. 
The Union loss was .312 killed, and 1,2.34 wounded. The Confederate loss 
is believed to have exceeded 2,(»00. "Gen. Reno, an ohV classmate of Gen. 
McClellan at West Point, was killed just before dusk, while making a 
reconnaissance." "He was a skillful soldier, a brave and honest man," 
said McClellan. "All firing was over by ten o'clock at night, the troops 
sleeping on their arms, ready to resume the battle at day-light. The 
Confederates however had had more than enough, and during the dark- 
ness they quietly folded their tents and stole away, abandoning their 
Mounded, and leaving large numbers of dead on the field." 

1 Those who did not enter the army have stood but little chance, for 
ufter the war the soldiers formed powerful combinations like the Loyal 
Legion, and the G. A. R., thereby securing (even to this day, 1908), nearly 
all the desirable offices, as well as big pensions, and palatial homes. 

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a long time on the way. * * * Our new preacher, Rev. 
Thomas Parker is here, and preached his first sermon yester- 
day. Think he will be acceptable. His last station was Dela- 
ware. 

H 's trial in * '^' * was to have taken place last 

week. The case was either continued or he forfeited his bond. 
He will find liefore he gets through that sin is a hard road tO' 
travel. I think it will break him up entirely. 

If you have not yet decided about the baby's name, perhaps 
it would be well to give him a German name, if you have an 
acquaintance whose name you like who would consider it a com- 
pliment. 

Our grapes are now fully ripe, and I wish you were here 
to enjoy them, but possibly you have much better ones. I 
have had two bushels of peaches canned, and expect to can 
another. Peaches are not so plentiful as we anticipated, nor so 
large, we have had such a dry summer. The ground is still 
so dry that farmers cannot plow for wheat. 

The invasion of Maryland by. General Lee,^ resulted in the 
great battle of Antietam, in which the Union army was vic- 
torious, and McClellan's friends are elated. I must stop. 

Your affectionate mother. 

1 The battle of Antietam, Md.. was commenced on the morning of Sept. 
17th, 1862, by Gen. Hooker's attack on Stonewall Jackson, who though 
reinforced by Gen. Hood was driven back. The contest was very fierce, each 
side alternately gaining or losing, till the middle of the afternoon when the 
fighting ceased, both armies being quite worn out. No fighting on the ISth, 
and during the night Lee quietly retreated across the Potomac. Lee said 
the battle "was fought with less than 40,000 men." McClellan had 87,146. 
The Union loss was 2108 killed, 9549 wounded, and 753 missing. Lee's loss 
according to his Report was 1567 killed, and 8274 wounded. The reports of 
his ofhcers show at least 2000 killed, 10,000 wounded, and 5000 missing. 
President Lincoln said, "The battle of Antietam was fought Wednesday, and 
until Saturday I could not find out whether we had gained a victory or lost 
a battle." The battle of Antietam was claimed by both sides as a victory. 
"The Confederates lost 13 guns, 39 colors, and more than 15,000 stands of 
small arms; and upwards of 6000 prisoners were secured at the battles of 
South Mountain and Antietam, while not a gun or color was lost by our 
army." "Antietam was the bloodiest battle of the war. More men were 
killed on that one day than on any other one day of the war." As the Con- 
federates retreated leaving their dead and many of their wounded on the 
field, and as the Union army remained in undisturbed possession of the field, 
burying the dead and caring for the wounded of both armies, it must be- 
held that the Union army under McClellan was victorious. 



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VIRGIL D. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Sept. 30, 1862. 

Dear Brother : — I again attempt to write you but will say in 
tlie beginning- that I have no news of importance. Nothing 
has taken place in this county for some time that would excite 
the interest of one situated as you are. 

The draft commences in Ohio to-morrow. The quota of our 
county is 356 men. who will be drawn from the townships re- 
spectively. Marion township having furnished her allotment 
escapes the draft. 

We are all enjoying pretty good health. Mother's health is 
not very good at any time, but she is as well now as usual. L 
have now Ijought my clothes, and am only waiting for "the 
ticket." I am now ready for the long journey.^ I am very 
anxious to see you, and will do so before long if God preserves 
my life. Your letters come regularly to hand. 

Your affectionate brother, 

V. D. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1862. 

My DEAR Son: — Princess. Mary, balie (James T.), and nurse, 
arrived safely on Friday evening. Virgil met them at the depot. 
They are very well considering their long journey by sea and 
land. P'rincess will give you particulars. 

This is the second Tuesday of October — election day. I 
went to the polls and cast my vote for the Union candidates, 
and came away. Have not been about the polls since. Have not 
nuich idea how it will go, so many Union men have entered 
"the army, but think Col. James H. Godman may be elected to 
Congress. The draft caught a few more locofocos than Union 
men. 

1 He expected to go to Hamburg to act in the capacity of secretary 
but lie became too ill to leave home. His services were needed in the 
Consulate. 

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Judge O. Bowen was attacked by a bulldog iu his old orchard 
ou East Center street last Sunday. The dog threw him down^ 
broke his right arm between the wrist and elbow, and bit and 
tore his left. His severe wounds will disable him all Winter. He 
has our sympathy. 

Virgil is anxiously waiting for a ticket that he may start to 
Germany, and enter upon the duties of the position you have 
kindly tendered him. I suffer much this fall from the efifects 
of my wounds. My back is very weak and I never expect to 
recover the use of my left hand. I expect to buy furs this wnn- 
ter, but they will be scarce as so many fur-hunters have gone tO' 
the war. 

Everything is getting dear; cotton goods are very dear, and 
woolens are rising. Wool that brought less than a year ago 40 
to 50 cents per lb. is now selling at 60 to 65. 

Col. John Beatty's regiment was in a hard fought desperate 
l)attle a few days ago, near Perryville, Ky. He came out safe, 
but lost a great many of his men. He is very highly praised 
for his bravery and good conduct in battle. Buell and Bragg 
"^vere in command of the respective armies. We came ofif vic- 
torious, but our loss in killed and wounded was heavy. I have 
not yet learned whether the 121st, (Lyman Spaulding's) regi- 
ment, and the 96th (to which John B. Williams belongs), were 
in this battle.^ The men in these regiments are from this and 
adjoining counties. It is well you are not here, for you are 
hardly strong enough to endure the hardships and privations of 
army service, and as an ambitious, patriotic man you could not 

1 Gen. Don Carlos Buell, in the battle of Perryville, or Chaplain Hills, 
had 58,000 Union troops, of whom 22,000 were raw recruits. Less than one 
half of the entire force was in the action, and the Union loss was 916 killed, 
2943 wounded, and 489 missing-. Polk's and Bragg's combined armies were 
engaged, more than 40,000 Confederate troops in all, and their loss in round 
numbers was about 3400. The Confederates retreated but were not pursued. 
Scribner's History of the U. S. in treating of the battle of Perryville. fought 
October 8, 1862, says: "The action was sharp and well managed on the part 
of Bragg, and as badly managed on Buell'-s part. Bragg reported his loss 
at about 2500 killed and wounded. It was 3396. The Federal loss was 4211, 
of whom 845 were killed, 2851 wounded, and 515 missing." Another authority 
says: "The fight lasted nearly all day, and was at times hand to hand. 
The National left being composed of raw recruits was destroyed, but the- 
rest of the line under Gen. P. H. Sheridan, held out bravely. * * * 
Buell's loss was 3700, including Gen. J. S. Jackson and Gen. W. T. TerrilL 
Bragg's casualties were about 3200. Bragg was compelled to retire. Buell 
did not follow him." 

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avoid going to war, ist to save }our country, and 2d to save 
vour credit. Young, able-l)odie<l men who stay at home are 
called cowards. D. S. Miller is now attending the University at 
Delaware. Your father, 

T. J. ANDliKSON. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

jMarion, Ohio, Oct. 15. 1862. 

Dear Son : — I cannot tell you how my heart throbbed with 
delight on the arrival of Princess and the children,^ and to find 
them all so well. One thing only marred our enjoyment, and 
that was your absence. While I feel that I would give all the 
world to see vou, I would not have you leave your post at this 
hour of your country's peril, ^'ou can now better serve the gov- 
ernment where you are than you could here, and the govern- 
ment is everything to us now. The copies of official letters 
you sent your father by Princess, were gratifying to us, and 
highlv complimentary of you, especially the one about the cap- 
ture of the steamer Columbia. 

Yesterdav we received a letter from Lyman Spaulding. His 
reo-iment, the 121st, at the time he wrote, was on the line of march 
from Louisville to Bardstown, but since then, on the 8th inst., the 
great battle of Perryville- was fought. Poor fellow! he may 
be one of the killed. One third of Col. John Beatty's com- 
mand was either killed or wounded. John receives great praise 
for great bravery. 

Mary, dear little prattling thing is as lively as a cricket, talk- 
ing German or English at pleasure, and apparently with the 
greatest ease. Little James is a very interesting child. Fie seems 
very different from his sister, but none inferior. I have been 
in the habit of supplicating the throne of Grace in behalf of my 
children at home and abroad, but now that you are all alone, 
bow forciblv and keenlv it comes to mind. Li your leisure hours 



iMrs. James H. Anderson with her two cliildron and nui-sc vtni-.iod to 
Ohio, from Germany, on a visit and to recrnit lior hcallli. 

= For a realistic and pathetic acconnt of this battle, and the action of 
the third regiment, O. V. I., by a participant, see The Citizen Soldier, by 
Gen. John Beatty, pp. ITfi to 1S2. 

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read the bil)le. In it yoii will find much to inform the mind 
and touch the heart. May God have you in His holy keeping. 

Your affectionate mother. 

P. S. — Your father's cane^ is beautiful, also my shawl. You 
have ni}' thanks. 



THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 
Washington, June 17, 1862. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg. 
Sir : — The Department has been informed by the Secretary of the 
Navy, to whom your dispatch No. 94 was referred, that "information of 
the suspicious movements of the steamer Cohnnbia sliall be communicated 
to the lilockading squadron." I am, sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 



THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO J. IT. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 
Washington, August 21, 1802. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

Consul of the United States at Hamburg. 
Sir: — The Department has this morning been informed by the Sec- 
retary of the Navy, that the steamer Columbia," concerning which you 
gave early and important information to this Department, which was 

1 During the summer of 1S62 I visited on official business our minister 
Gen. H. S. Sanford at Brussels. With Thurlow W^eed, W. L. Dayton, and 
others we drove to the field of Waterloo, where inside tlie historic briclt wall 
I cut several thorn canes, the heaviest of wliich I had mounted by the 
Meyer Brothers of Hamburg, brothers-in-law of Hon. Carl Schurz. and 
owners of the largest cane factory in the world. Tlie cane is before me now 
and bears this inscription: 

To 

Hon. T. J. Anderson, 

by his daughter 

Princess. 

Field of Waterloo. 

1862. 

- Tliis fine vessel and her cargo of arms and other munitions of war 

wei-e of great value. 

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promptly comniunicaU'd to the Navy Department, has been captured. 
I am, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Sewakd, 
Assistant Secretary. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 2y, 1862. 

Dear Son : — * * * I am i;lad that Princie and the chil- 
dren came home. If you were here my joy would be complete. 
Princie is still here : I do all in my power to make her comfort- 
able. She occupies the back parlor, and the two bedrooms ad- 
joining". She expects to go to Mr. R. X. Taylor's this week, 
and remain long enough to make a good visit. I trust she will 
find it convenient to spend the principal part of her time here. 
Mary, dear little thing, stays with me nearly all day long, calls 
me her dear grandmamma, and to carry her point flatters ine 
m various ways. She is sitting by me now writing with a lead 
pencil. The babe is growing finely, and if it continue well, will 
walk I think as early as March. 

The nurse is not very well. She has made no acquaintances 
among the Germans of the place. We have quite a snow, and 
the weather for a few days has been cold, although the leaves 
are yet nearly all on the trees. We have a great many nice ap- 
ples, and I wish you had some of them. * * * I was greatly 
interested in reading your dispatch to the State Department giv- 
ing an account of your interview with the Chief Burgomaster 
of Hamburg, when you handed to him the gold medal presented 
by our governiucnt to Capt. Wiebess. * * * I feel great 
solicitude for your welfare, more especially now as you are quite 
alone. I pray God to have you in His holy keeping, and remain 

Your atTectionate mother. 



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TIIK STATE DEPARTMENT TO J. H. ANDERSON". 

Department of State, 
Washington, August 28, 1862'. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Haiiihurg. 
Sir: — Information has been received at this Department from Mr. 
Jolm E. Lovejoy, the Consul of the United States at Callao, of the 
rescue at sea of a portion of the crew of the American bark Annie Buck- 
nam, by Captain G. S. Wiebess, of the Hamburg- bark Mercuric, on the 
2Gth of Deceml)er last, in Lat. 38° 40' S., and Long. 170° 47' west from- 
Greenwich. 

In view of the humane and gallant conduct of Captain Wiebess, in 
rescuing as he did with much risk and difficulty our unfortunate coun- 
trymen from the wreck of their sinking vessel, the President has directed' 
that a gold medal, with a suitable inscription, be transmitted to you with 
instruction to place it in the hands of the Chief Burgomaster at Ham-' 
burg, and request him to present it to Captain Wiebess, in his name,, 
with the thanks of the Government for the important services which 
he has rendered. The medal has been sent to the Dispatch Agent at New 
York, who has been directed to forward it to yon by a careful hand. 
I an*, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Act'uis. Secrctarv. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 28, 1862. 

My DEAR Son : — At your reqttest I have handed Viroil $ 

to make ptirchases before going to Europe. He will be ready 
lo start the moment he receives a passage ticket. 

Judge Bowen is now marshaling the liens on Geo. Miller's 
real property to make the money you paid as Miller's surety. 
We also have a tax claim of $84.00 on George's home farm of 
80 acres. When this tract is offered for sale as it will be by the 
first of March, shall I buy it for you if I can do so at about 
$30.00 per acre? It will always be valuable as it is good land 
and near town. In ordinary times it is worth $40 to $50 per 
acre. Do you wish to sell your Deal Farm? The tenant living 
on it would like to buy it. 

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The claims of relatives of deceased soldiers sent by you to- 
Virgil for collection, will not l)e paid, as the claimants are non- 
resident foreigners. They must have their residence in the United 
States, as you will see by reference to an Act of Congress passed 
July nth, 1862. 

Princess, Alary and the baby — J. Thomas — are well, also 
the nurse girl, and we are glad they are so contented and com- 
fortable. I think your son is a very bright intellectual child. 
Princess will write all particulars. 

Young Henry Peters,^ of Upper Sandusky, was found dead 
at the culvert of the Belief ontaine and Indiana Railroad, just west 
of town, on Saturday morning last. We fear he was nuirdered. 
The Coroner's inquest in the case is still going on. As yet I know 
nothing of what has been proven. He got his horse out of the 
Freese House stable on Friday night about 11 o'clock, and he 

and mounted him, Ixtth under the influence of liquor, and 

they rode away together. And that was the last seen or heard of 
them till Saturday morning when Peters was found dead. * * 

Paper money is depreciating here. It is much beknv specie. 
We hardly see any gold or silver. Treasury notes are a legal 
tender; so if coin be demanded, payment is made in Treasury 
Notes. Demand notes are scarce. They are monopolized by 
eastern bankers and capitalists. * * * Sink or swim, I am 
for the U. S. Government, and think it will yet prevail. My 
trust is in God, and I believe He designs some good thing to come 
out of this wicked rebellion. Your father, 

T. T- Anderson. 



mrs. thomas j. anderson to james h. anderson. 
Marion,, Ohio, Nov. ii, 1862. 

Dear Son : — I have not received a letter from you for a good 
while, but we all see the letters you write to Princie. 

Last Thursday a week Princie, Cora, and T, acc()mi)anied Mr. 
R. N. Taylor to his home in Wyandot county. We remained 
until Saturday, when he took us to Mr. F. F. Fowler's, north 



1 A young- gentleman of property and good family connections. 

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•of Upper Sandusky. On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler accom- 
panied us to Upper Sandusky, where we attended church, and 
afterwards dined at (the parsonage), — the residence of Rev. J. 
F. Burkholder. Princie returned to Mr. Taylor's, and I staid 
over night at Mrs. Mary Anderson Marlow's. On Monday the 
Fowlers, Taylors, Princie and I, dined at Dr. James McConnell's. 
We had an excellent dinner, and the time passed pleasantly.^ 
Your father met me ahout 4 o'clock, when we all returned to Mr. 
Taylor's. The next day we started home. Princie will remain 
a couple of weeks visiting at the pleasant homes of her sisters, 
Mrs. Taylor, and Mrs. Fowler, who do all they can for her 

-comfort. It was something of an undertaking, but I enjoyed 
myself very much. 

I suppose that Princie has written you the particulars of the 
death of Henry Peters. The people here generally think he was 
murdered. A few of those with whom I talked at Upper San- 
dusky, said that Henry had no sense at all when drunk, and 
might have wandered to the culvert, and fallen through, and 
thus been killed by the fall. If he was murdered, I have no doubt 
it was the intention of his murderers to make that appear. 

■, and a fellow named — are suspected, but I am not 

disposed to say it aloud without good proof, for men who would 
murder would not hesitate to burn property, or do any other 
deed of villainy. 

A copy of your dispatch to the State Department, on the 
subject of sending soldiers and sailors to enter our service, and 
a copy of your circular letter to encourage emigration to this 
country, I read with great satisfaction. I know that you will not 
be despondent for you have too much to do ; and when quite 
alone, your thoughts, and your books, and above all the book of 
books, will keep you company. 

Your afifectionate mother. 



1 The wife of Dr. James McConnell, was Miss Margaretta Nelson, a 
sister of the wife of Gov. John Brough. and of the wife of David Taylor, of 
Columbus, father of R. N. Taylor. These superior women sprang from good 
Revolutionary stock. Dr. and Mrs. McConnell were the parents of Dr. R. N. 
McConnell, M. D., an eminent physician, wlio was united in marriage a few 
years ago to the charming and accomplished Miss Leefe Beery of Upper 
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JAMES H. ANDEKSON TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 

United States Consulate, 

T,. i,Tt Hamburg, Auj^ust 5, 18G2. 

I\o. 125. '^ 

Sir: — It is currently reported here that our government finds it: 
difficult to raise 300,000 more men for service in the army, and hundreds 
of applications have been made to me since the President's call for more 
troops, to enter our service on one condition : a free passage to America. 
The applicants are strong, robust men. I could send 10,000 soldiers for 
the army, and 1,000 sailors for the navy, to New York, without in any 
way compromising my country or my olificial standing. 

There are generally in port some American vessels, the masters of 
".vhich would from motives of patriotism, and on account of the difficulty 
of procuring cargoes, take such emigrants to the United States on very 
reasonable terms. The persons I would accept would make useful citi- 
;:ens. A formal contract with these persons would be unnecessary, for 
ninety-nine out of every hundred would enter the service. Hoping to. 
hear from you at your earliest convenience on this subject, I remain, 

Your obedient servant, 

James H. Anderson, 

Hon. IV. H. Sci^'ard, U. S. Consul. 

Secretary of State. JVashington, D. C. 



THE DEI^ARTMENT OF STATE TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Deipartment of St.vte 
Washington, August 25, 1862. 
J. H. Anderson. Esq , 

Consul of the I'nited States at Hamburg. 
Sir: — Your dispatch No. 125 has been received. A copy of the N. Y. 
Times, containing some judicious remarks on the subject of emigration 
has been sent to your address. You have already been apprised of the 
great demand for labor in this country, and the high prices which are 
paid for it in consequence of the exuberant crops. You are also aware 
of the generous bounties which are given to volunteers in the U. S. 
service. Your attention is likewise directed to the Act of Congress in 
regard to Homesteads, which you will find in the laws of the last session. 
At no antecedent period have the inducements to emigration been so- 
great as at this time. I am. Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 

Assistant Secretary. 

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JAMES H. ANDERSON TO THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE. 

United States Consulate, 
^ .r.^ Hamburg, September 15, 1862. 

Sir : — I have the lienor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 
25th lilt., full of useful hints. * * * I receive hundreds of letters monthly 
from all parts of Germany, for information concerning the conditions 
of admission into the army; the wages of officers and privates; the 
price of labor in the different departments of industry in the United 
States; the bounties of soldiers; homesteads; wild lands, and on various 
other subjects. I have written a letter in German as full of information, 
and couched in language as encouraging as I was capable of doing in 
a few sentences, and I forward it as an answer to all the letters that I 
receive from persons who contemplate emigrating. Any additional ideas 
on any of these questions which you may think might be useful to me, 
I would be pleased to receive at any time. I have the honor to be, sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

James H. Anderson, 

Hon. F. IV. Sctvard, U. S. Consul. 

Assistant Secretary of State, Washington. 



thomas j. anderson to james h. anderson. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. ii, 1862. 

My dear Son : — Your last to Princess was received on the 
.5th inst. She is now at Upper Sandusky, with the children and 
nurse. Your mother and Cora accompanied them in Mr. R. N. 
Taylor's carriage. They left here on Thursday, the 30th ult., 
and I started to fetch your mother and Cora back on the Monday 
follow^ing-. While gone I paid part of your Wyandot county 
taxes. Robt. Mitchell wdll pay on "The Rolling Plain," 640 
acre farm; Wesley Hedges on the 400 acre "Prairie Farm;" 
and the White boys on the 320 acre River Farm. I will pay the 
taxes on the two 80 acre wood lots, and on the Deal Farm 
(in this county), and your Marion county chattel tax. I find it 
alniDst impossible to get rails made for the farms. R. N. Taylor 
has also tried to find me a railmaker, but has not yet succeeded. 

You can hardly imagine the scarcity of gold and silver in this 
country. Neither is in circulation, and hardly any to be seen. 

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No wonder, when they are at such a premium. Those having 
any hold on to it and hoard it. There will prohably be a fearful 
crash when this wicked rebellion ends. 

The leaders of the South sympathize with the nobles and 
monarchs of the world in their hatred of republican institutions, 
and would like an aristocratic or monarchic form of govern- 
ment in the slave states. The southern aristocrat hates what 
we call freedom. He would deny it not only to the slave, but 
to all the laboring classes, white as well as black. But 
his own freedom he would not abridge. The people of the 
whole country will never bow in subjection to the will of a few 
aristocrats, but on the contrary will support our conservative 
republican form of government. The Anglo-Saxon, which is, 
ever has been, and ever will be the ruling element, will sustain it. 
Freedom and slavery in my opinion, will never be able to live 
together again in peace. 

The democracy so-called, have carried almost all the elections 
this fall, for the great mass of the soldiers in the army are Repub- 
licans who could not vote. But we will live through it all, and 
come out on the right side at last. Discharge your duty to your 
country and be not dismayed. Right will finally prevail. 

We have very fine weather, and the best roads you ever saw 
for carriage driving, but it is too dry. Stock must suffer for 
water. All the small streams are nearly dry, and many wells 
are giving out. 

The President has removed Gen. McClelland from the com- 
mand of the army. A good move we think. Gen. Burnside is 
in McClellan's place. 

Your dear wife and children will be well taken care of here. 
They expect to return to Hamburg in the spring, say after the 
equinoctial storms arc over. Your father, 

T. T- Anderson. 



thomas j. anderson to james h. anderson. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1862. 
My dear Son : — Princess arrived last Wednesday from Up- 
per Sandusky, and returned the next day. Rev. J. F. and Mrs. 

1 Gen. McClellan was relieved of his command, and Gen. Ambrose E. 
Burnside appointed to succeed him Nov. 5, 1862. 

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Burkholder accompanied her. She is quite well, and Mary and 
little James T. also. He is a very bright boy, and if he should 
live and get no backset will make a good man. * * * I know 
you must feel lonesome. You now have a fine opportunity to 
read and study which I know you enjoy. But take plenty of out- 
door exercise. "•' '■' * 

Lyman Spaulding is still sick at Perryville, where he fought 
bravely, but is getting better. I send you a printed account of 
this bloody battle by a correspondent of the Louisville Journal. 
The battle was fought on Chaplin Hill, near Perryville. Capt, 
Eb. Peters^ of this place, was present in the capacity of a quarter- 
master of our 1 2 1st regiment. 

J. S. Reed's health is very poor. His friends fear that he 
has the consumption. We hope their fears may prove ground- 
less. Col. John J. Williams has resigned his place in the army, 
and is at home trying to practice law. Your friend Sammy 
Dumblc- has enlisted, and will make a good soldier. John E. 
Kraner's Avife is dead.-' She died of typhoid fever. The bell 
is now tolling for her funeral. 

We must put down this wicked rebellion, and let the world 
know that the Ignited States govern, and wnll continue to do so. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1862. 
My dear Son : — Since the return of your wife and children 
I have had no letter from you. Am glad to learn through Prin- 
cess that you are well. * * * 

^ Capt. Peters was a merchant, an adroit politician, and held several 
important offices. He was a brother of Nathan and Henry, and had several 
other brothers who like Henry lived to a great age. He inherited a large 
sum (for his day), nor was he an idle man. but the wine cup, and the four 
kings, and I may add politics, handicapped his best endeavors in his busi- 
ness career. 

- Samuel R. Dumble was a brave loyal citizen. After the war he was 
one of the proprietors of the Marion Independent. Though modest and unas- 
suming, he was true and reliable and a man of capacity. 

^ Though in the humble walks of life, this handsome woman was beloved 
by many, because of her grace, and sunny sympathetic generous disposition. 

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Everything- we eat and wear is now quite liigh lierc, and stiH 
rising-. Coffee is seHing- at 30 to 40 cents per 11)., and teas such 
as we used to get for 75 cents per lb. are now worth $1.50. 
A'lany of our people are using- domestic coffee. Even R. H. 
Johnson. J. S. Reed, Dr. True, R. N. Taylor, Captain Hardy/ 



1 Captain Elisha Hardy — merchant, banker, capitalist — was born in 
New Jersey. July 4, 1795, and about 1S27 came to Marion, where he died 
May 13, 1S77. He long kept a store on the northwest corner of Main and 
Center streets, and like other retail merchants of that day. bought and sold 
almost all kinds of merchandise. In the center of his long frame storeroom, 
stood (on end) an open barrel of whisky, (that probably cost the captain 10 
cents per gallon), with a tin dipper attachment, which the customers — many 
of whom wore buckskin, or linsey-woolsey clothing — found consoling and 
refreshing. The captain called it "a free liquid refreshment." The place 
was known as "Old Cap. Hardy's store," and as "Cap. Hardy's Corner." In 
politics the captain was a Whig, and later a Republican; he was a Mason, 
a Presbyterian, and a temperate industrious good-natured man of good 
impulses. He was kind and sometimes generous to the poor and needy; 
but his piety was hardly of standard quality, nor of the sort "the noble 
army of martyrs" would have indorsed. 

In 1846 he made a fatal mistake in marrying a seedy widow or grass- 
widow, an adventuress called Mrs. Jane G. Marshall, who came to Marion 
some time before, and who it was said was born in Conn., April 19, 1807. 
Soon after coming to Marion, "the widder Marshall" lit on our short, squatty, 
pot-bellied, baldheaded captain, endeavoring by her Delilah-like wiles and 
sorceries to lure him (her unsophisticated victim), into the meshes of a net 
from which escape is generally difficult. Resistanc<> schemed useless, the 
captain soon fell down, she had him in her toils, and triumphed over him, — • 
this half educated, bluestocking, puritanical, Connecticut termigant, of old 
degenerate vitriolic blood. She now became a terroi- lo the man, for he 
was neither brave nor cunning, and liated troul)le and lawsuits. 

Pretending to be ciicciiitc she threatened him with prosecutions, disgrace, 
and loss of foi'tune. Thoroughly fi'ightened, he consented to go with her to 
the marriage altar. The woman's threats leaked out, and the small com- 
munity was shocked, for the cai)tain was considered a .Joseph. 

He installed her in his large yellow brick house on the lot in the rear 
of his business corner, where for many years she terrorized him, and annoyed 
and terrorized the neighborhood. Standing on the sidewalk or in the middle 
of the street in front of the yellow brick residence, she made the very air 
lurid, almost daily, with frantic screams, and wild absurd speeches, and 
charges, in a loud thundering voice, against her amiable .spouse, who never 
uttered a word of protest, nor made a complaint. The wonder now is that 
she was so long permitted to disturb the public peace, and abuse a harmless 
old man. No child came to inherit her disposition, and she died in the 
west, in far away Washington, about 1893, old ugly and almost friendless. 
The captain who rarely wore a hat. coat, vest or collar, was always busy. 
With nothing on but a shirt — once presumably white — a pair of old trousers, 
and unkempt shoes and stockings, he never apologized for his appeai'ance, 
and his manner and greeting were always frank, cordial, and manly. His 
education was slight but like most New Jersey people he used good language, 
and his pronunciation was far better than that of the mass of the people of 
either New England, or the South. TvOng supposed to be rich, he left no 
great fortune. The captain's race and that of liis wife is jirobably extinct, 
or nearly so. 

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F. F. Fowler, T. P. Wallace, Judge Bartram, and other men of 
means are using rye instead of Rio. 

I concluded (as you already know) to employ Judge Bowen 
to marshal the liens on the lands of old George Miller, to secure 
a part or the whole if possible, of your claims. I shall l)uy no 
more tax-titles. Our county officials do their business so loosely 
that I can only recover my money with simple interest. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 21, 1862. 

Dear Son : — You are on my mind almost constantly, and 
more since Princie came home than before because I feel that 
you must pass many lonely hours. Her health is already better 
than when she came, and I think after she makes the return 
journey she will be well, or at least as well as she will ever be- 
come. She^ is now at Mr. F. F. Fowler's, but we look for her 
here before the holidays. * * * I trust you will retain your 
health. I don't know what I should do if I knew you were sick. 
Lyman is still in the hospital at Perry ville, Ky. John B. Wil- 
liams, Marshall Godman, and William Davis are in Memphis. 
Col. J. H. Godman, and Lieut. J. R. Prichard. were wounded at 
the late battle on the Rappahannock, (Fredericksburg),- but 
neither mortally. May the ever living God have you in His holy 
keeping. 

Your affectionate mother. 

1 She was visiting her sister, Mrs. Fowler, on the large stock farm of 
her husband north of Upper Sanduslvy. 

- The battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 13, 1862. The Union 
army under Gen. Burnside consisted of 127,574 officers and men of all arms. 
The army of Lee, SO, 000 in number, commanded by Jackson and Longstreet, 
was strongly intrenched on the heights behind Fredericksburg. Our loss is 
officially stated at 12,653 killed, wounded and missing. The Confederates, 
well stationed and sheltered, lost only 5377. Burnside and Franklin were 
relieved of their commands. Lions were led by asses into the very jaws 
of death. 

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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1862. 

My DEAR Son: — Since I made my last report I have col- 
lected the following sums. * * * 

I cannot loan money now. The Bank of Marion offers to 
loan me money on call at 3 per cent. Paper money is plenty, 
but gold and silver are not seen. They no longer circulate. For 
small change we use shinplasters, issued by private individuals, 
redeemable in bank bills when presented in sums of one dollar 
or more. 

Before you get this you will have heard of the battle of 
Fredericksburg. \^a., in which Col. J. H. Godman, of the 4th 
Ohio, was badly but not dangerously wounded in the right leg in 
two places, below and above the knee. He is now Iving in Wash- 
ington city. Lieut. J. R. Prichard of this place was wounded in 
the hand, also in the side by having several ribs broken. It was 
a great slaughter, and many were wounded. The 4th Ohio is 
badly crip])led, because of the number killed, wounded, missing 
and sick. There arc not above 50 men of this regiment left able 
for service. 

Col. Bradford R. Durfee has returned from Illinois and will 
probably remain here. Mrs. Hane, the wife of our cashier J. J. 
Hane, died last week of typhoid fever. James King J. P., of 
Salt Rock township, died of the same disease.^ 

Annie says she expects Princess here on Christmas. I have 
not sent you a Marion paper for two weeks for the reason there 

is nothing in it worth the postage. W D • has got very 

careless. His paper is not worth anything. It contains no local 
news. Princess probably gives you the home news. We have 
this year a very good preacher, Rev. Thomas Parker, but he is 
in very poor health. 

1 George King, born in Sussex county, Del., May 7, 1791, came to Ohio in 
1815, and to Salt Rock Tp., Marion county, C, in 1823, and settled on his own 
farm where he died .Jan'y 10. 1857. His son James, born March 6, 1821. In 
T'ickaway county, O., came with his parents to the farm in Salt Rock, in 1823. 
He married Jane McElvey, Oct. 19. 1844, and died on his farm in Salt Rock, 
Dec. 15, 1862. His widow, two children, and six grandchildren survive him. 
He has now (1902) four brothers and one sister living, the oldest brother 
being Samuel, the father of Mrs. Ettle Clixby. wife of James Clixby a 
stock-grower of Wyandot county, O. The standing of tlie King family for SO 
years, in Marion county, has been high. 

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Mention was made in the papers, that you sent to the Secre- 
tary of War several cases of arms — a present to our government 
by the king of Bavaria. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



JAMES H. ANDERSON TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 

United States Consulate, 
^Q 235 Hamburg October 15, 1862. 

Sir : — I have forwarded two cases of arms to the Secretary of War, 
through the U. S. Dispatch Agent at New York, that were presented 
to our Government by the King of Bavaria as specimens of Bavarian man- 
ufacture. I paid the freight on these cases from Munich to this city. I 
have the honor to be. Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

James H. Anderson, 
Hon. W. H. Sev/ard, U. S. Consul. 

Secretary of State, IVashington. 



FREDERICK W. SEWARD TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 
Washington, November 29, J 862. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

Consul of the United States, Hamburg. 
Sir : — Your dispatch No. 135 having been received, and referred to 
the Secretary of War, that officer states in reply that "when the arms 
are received, this manifestation of good will by the King of Bavaria 
shall have prompt and fitting acknowledgment." I am, sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jan'y 7, 1863. 
My dear Son : — About ten days ago a copy of your dispatch 
to the Department of State on the subject of the Great Inter- 
national Agricultural Exhibition, which will be held next sum- 
mer in Hamburg, appeared in many papers. * * * Princess 
has not yet come from Wyandot county, but we are looking for 

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her on every train as she wrote us eight days since that she would 
be here in about a week. 

Robert Ramsey redeemed his lands in Tully township, by tak- 
ing an assignment of oin- tax-claim. Thos. Pierson redeemed the 
J. R. Knapp. Jr.. tax-title to lands in Alarion township. I ac- 
cepted $^ . not really enough to pay us for our trouble ; and 

taking into account the depreciation in money, not nearly as much 
as we expended. Money can hardly be loaned in this market to 
good safe men for any interest. 

Wesley Fribley is dead. He died in camp at Memphis of 
measels. Our Ninety Sixth regiment, O. V. I., is now at or near 
Vicksburg, and Capt. Coulter^ is in command. John B. Wil- 
liams- is a first lieutenant of this regiment. It has recently 
been engaged in an attack on Vicksburg. The fight was in the 
rear of the place, and is said to have been a severe one, but we 
have not yet received a list of the killed and wounded. Gen. W. 
T. Sherman, brother of our friend Senator John Sherman, is the 
commanding officer, and the report is that he was successful in 
the fight, and that he now occupies Vicksburg. If so it gives 
lis the use of the Mississippi river to New Orleans. 

I am not handling any cattle or other live stock this winter, 
but I am buying furs. They are very high in consequence of 
the abundance or depreciation of paper money. Gold is now at 
a premium of 24 per cent. Treasury demand notes and silver are 
about equal in value, say 24 to 28 per cent, premium. 

Those who have anything to sell are getting rich. Our Ger- 
man farmers, an industrious saving class of foreigners, are be- 
coming quite well-to-do. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



1 Capt. Samuel Coulter, formerly a United Brethren preacher. The offl- 
•cial record says, "He died of wounds April 28, 1864."— A sterling patriot, 
and brave able officer. 

- A good man and good soldier, son of Judge Joseph J. and Mrs. Jane 
S. Williams, and cousin of Gen. John Beatty. Capt. John B. Williams mar- 
ried a handsome cultured Logan county heiress, and he has long been a suc- 
•cessful Bellefontaine Vninker. 



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FREDERICK W. SEWARD TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 
Washingtox, December 29, 1862. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq.^ 

Consul of the United States, Hamburg 
Sir : — Your dispatch No. 146 has been received, and by direction of 
the Department printed for general information in the National Intelli- 
gencer. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 



JAMES H. ANDERSON TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
Published by order of the Secretary of State, in the National Intel- 
ligencer, Washington, December 25, 1862. 

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT HAMBURG. 

Consulate of the United States, 

,, ,,„ Hamburg, November 10, 1862. 

No. 146. 

Sir: — I have the honor to inform you that I have just received the 

following note : 

^ [translation.] 

"Hamburg, October, 1862. 
Sir : — The undersigned committee beg to inform your Honor that 
it intends opening in Hamburg, in the month of June, 1863, an Interna- 
tional Exhibition of agricultural productions, machinery, and breeding 
cattle of all kinds, in co-operation w^ith the German Agricultural Society. 
As we are desirous that the farmers and agriculturists and others in- 
terested in agriculture of your country participate in this enterprise, we 
beg to give you thus early this information, and to request you to bring 
the same to the knowledge of the eminent Government you represent. 
We shall have the honor to send you a list of the premiums which will 
be a awarded, and the rules for the regulation of the Exhibition, both of 
which will be published by the 1st of December. 

We beg further to say that the time limited for the receipt of appli- 
cations concerning the Exhibition is the first day of IMarch. 
Accept the assurance of our high esteem. 

We have the honor to be the Committee of the International Agri- 
cultural Exhibition at Hamburg for 1863. 

Ernst von Merck, J. F. W^ Reimers, 

Consul General of Atistria. E. Nolting, 

A. J. Schoen, • G. Mutzenbecher, 

Consul of Nassau. Claus Olde, 

Th. Schmidt, H. Becker, 

Consul General of Wurtemburg. P. A. Ross." 

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Inasmuch as I am requested by the distinguished gentlemen at the 
head of this noble enterprise to bring it to the notice of the Govern- 
ment. I earnestly hope that it will not be passed by as a thing of no 
moment, but that every possible effort will be made to have the country 
suitably represented. It will be one of those golden opportunities that 
only come with centuries to spread abroad our name. We need not fear 
the result of a comparison of fine blooded cattle, farming implements, 
and machinery, and agricultural productions with any other country. 
Such comparison would only redound to our praise. And then we are 
deeply interested in standing fair before the people of Germany, be- 
cause we look to this countrj' principally to furnish our annual supply 
of emigrants. 

As the press of this country has been diverting emigration to some 
considerable extent for the last year and a half from the United States 
to different portions of South America by false representations, it be- 
hooves us at the approaching exhibition to strain every nerve to make 
a display so imposing as to win back the w-andering affections of this 
libertj'-loving race. There is no country so deeph^ interested in being 
well represented at this great Fair as ours. We not only want to deepen 
the good impression we have already made on the German mind, but we 
want a chance (which we will now have) of competing with other nations 
in the exhibition of those things in which we excel. We ought surely 
to avail ourselves of an exhibition of this kind to show the world wdiat 
we can do, notwithstanding the mighty conflict that is Taging in the 
land. We have made rapid strides in agriculture and in agricultural 
machinery. Our thoroughbred stock probabh' equals that of any other 
country-. 

All the civilized world will doubtless be represented, and we should 
not be behind the foremost nation. As we are I believe able to cope 
with any other people in these productions, and as we are so vitally in- 
terested in making a decent appearance on the occasion referred to, I 
hope our people will act without hesitation in the matter. A majority 
of our people believe that we outrival all mankind in machinery, and 
some of our most intelligent think we are not behind other nations in 
fine breeding cattle and in agriculture ; then why should we stay at 
home or loiter on the way ? 

Baron Merck, the head of the enterprise, the Consul General of Aus- 
tria, and a leading merchant and banker in Hamburg, said to me the 
other day : "Your nation, before and above all others, should make a good 
showing, because you are not only interested in German good-will, but as 
this is a grazing and an agricultural country, you would certainly after- 
wards be called upon to furnish us farming machinery, if not im- 
proved breeding stock."' 

The great International Exhibition lately held in London, was on 
many accounts a place in which we could not appear to good advantage. 
Do not understand that I am attempting to detract from the intrinsic 
merits of that monument of genius and industry. I will simply say that 

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wc were wholly unaJjle to make any showing in many of the departments 
in which the States of Europe were well represented, partly because 
the articles there exhibited do not interest us, and partly for the reason 
they were the products of countries either of great age or great wealth. 
Works of art and anti(|uity, precious stones, rare and curious gems, 
valuable jewelry, "old wine in bottles," complicated and costly fabrics, 
and many other articles which we could not produce, and which a great 
and prosperous country like ours might be expected to by Europeans, 
heightened the interest and charm of the exhibition for many persons. 

This exhibition, however, will be the proper theatre for the display 
of dur genius, enterprise, and progressive development. Although the 
showing we made in London was so poor and puny in comparison to 
what it might have been, that I, in common with every other American 
who visited the exhibition, felt ashamed of it, still the Mining Journal 
paid us the following tribute. After remarking that we have undoubtedly 
surpassed all other nations in the invention of labor-saving machinery, 
and that therefore the United States department in the exhibition is 
more interesting to the general visitor than any other, the Journal says : 
"The utility of many of these contrivances can only be fully appreciated 
in a country where labor is scarce and difficult to obtain at any price ; 
yet the most casual observer can see that a large number of them could 
be most advantageously introduced into this country. It appears to 
matt«r little to the Americans whether a railway entrenchment or a 
lady's dress is to be cut, whether clothes arc to be wrung or flints pul- 
verized, there is sure to be found some one to manufacture a machine, 
and sure to be plenty to purchase it. Not content with ordinary steam 
engines, windmills, and waterwheels as motors, the Americans have been 
first to apply the hot air engine, and, so far as experience yet shows 
will have no reason to regret the experiment. To attempt to describe 
the whole of the machines worthy of attention in the United States 
courts would necessitate the devotion of a far larger amount of space 
than we have at disposal ; we must therefore, content ourselves with 
allusion to some of the princii^al attractions in which our readers are 
likely to be interested, reminding them that the location of the courts 
under consideration is the southeastern corner of the Ijuilding." 

This Journal then gives a detailed and elaborate description of the 
Little (iiant Stone-breaking machine, exhibited by Mr. Eli Blake; of a 
Wind Pmnp, invented by Messrs Wentworth and Jarvis; of an im- 
proved Belt Shifter, for machinery, invented by J. C. Gore; of an im- 
proved system of Signal Telegraphy, for marine purposes, invented by 
Mr. W. H. Ward ,of Auburn, New York; of a patent Paper Bag 
machine, exhibited by Mr. Pettel; and of an improved Lock and Washer, 
exhibited by Lawrence, White & Brother, of New York. LKismuch as 
we made so good an imjjression in England without any special effort, 
it seems to me that we all ought to feel encouraged to unite our 
endeavors to diffuse a more perfect knowledge among the people gener- 
ally on this continent of our attainments, and to put our shoulders to the 

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Avheel and roll into the International Exhibition at Hanil)urtj,- a great 
supply of such things as will be there displayed. 

Our farmers, agriculturists, stock growers and agricultural machine 
manufacturers ought to feel a direct interest and take pride in this 
undertaking; our owners of wild lands ought to promote it; and, in my 
humble opinion, our rulers ought to lend it a hearty support, not only 
from motives of far-seeing policy, but from lofty principles of states- 
manship. 

Ever}' arrangement is being made by the signers of the foregoing 
letter and others, all of wdiom are wealthy and ])ublic spirited, to have 
the scheme a complete success. Already the committee have received 
letters from nearly all i^arts of Europe, the writers signifying a strong 
desire to be here at the appointed time. It will surely be no failure, 
but will at least equal the great International Exhibition just closed in 
London in the articles exhibited. Hamburg being the fourth or fifth 
commercial city on the globe, the wealthiest of its size, and remarkably 
well connected with other places by rail and steamers, is a place every 
way suitable for the gathering together of people of all lands. Berlin, 
Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Munich, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Pesth, War- 
saw, St. Petersburg aand Moscow are only a few hours distant — from 
seven to fifty-four. Steamers ply regularly between Hamburg and New 
York, London, (and many other places in the United Kingdom), Copen- 
hagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg, and all the principal seaports; and the 
Elbe is navigaljle as far as Prague. 

All the agricultural societies in Germany will co-operate with the 
people of this city to make this movement every way Iirilliant. The 
agricultural societies of most of the other states of Europe will doubt- 
less be represented likewise. The Hamburg-American Steamship Com- 
pany have signified their intention to carry goods that are designed for 
exhibition in Hamburg at reduced rates of freight. 

I have the honor to be. Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

JAME.S H. Anderson, 

U. S. Consul. 
Hon. Wm. H. Seward, 

Secretary of Stulc, irasliiiigton. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Jan'y 20, 1863. 

My Dear Son : — Princess and your father received letters 
from you on the 17th and we were all glad to hear froin you. 
The children are quite well, but their mother's cold sticks to 

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her. Slie does not feel able to write to-day. I have not writ- 
ten as often as usual lately as Princie writes you regularly. It 
its now lo o'clock a. m. and the first day Princie has kept her 
bed. l-)on't be uneasy : think she will be better soon. 

.\s soon as the weather is clear and pleasant, Princie will be 
well enough to walk out. She will then improve, though I fear 
her health will always be delicate. Don't be anxious about your 
family. All that I can do for their comfort shall be done. The 
health of our town is much better than when I wrote you before ;. 
in fact there is no serious sickness in the place. 

You would laugh to see James T. eating a doughnut or tug- 
ging away at a piece of dried beef. He has all the milk he 
wants, but appears to crave solids. He looks well, and grows 
finely. Mary, sweet little dear, wants me to send her love and 
many kisses to her papa, and to tell him that she can sing "Co- 
lumbia, the Gem of the Ocean,' and "I have a Father in the 
promised land." She thinks her papa would be pleased to hear 
her sing. 

If you have not yet furnished your house, I think I would 
not buy much if any furniture before Princie arrives. She will 
be more competent to select to advantage. 

We have just had the deepest snow for many years. It ex- 
tended from the lakes to Memphis. It was twenty three inches 
deep at Cincinnati, and its great weight crushed many roofs in 
that city. It is now going ofif rapidly, and will probably cause 
a freshet. 

We have seen the President's message, and the Hamburg 
Minister's dispatch, in relation to the Great Hamburg Fair. May 
God, whom you love, trust and serve, have you in His holy 
kccjMug. 

Your affectionate mother. 



JAMES R. M DONALD TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Hamburg, February, 2, 1863. 

My i)e.\r Consul Anderson : — Under the head of American news, 
in to-day's Nachrichten, you will find that the President has laid before 
Congress a dispatch of Dr. Schleiden, the Hamburg Minister at Wash- 

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ington. This dispatch and yours, and those of our other representatives- 
in the north of Europe, will no douht result in good. Hope something 
will come out of it all. * * * 

Yours very truly, 

James R. McDonald.' 

Ex. Doc. No. 31. 

37th Congress, 3d session. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION IN THE CITY 

OF HAMBURG. 

MESSAGE 

from the 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 
Transmitting 
Correspondence of the minister of the Hanseatic republics in relation- 
to an international agricultural exhibition in the city of Hamburg. 
January 15, 1863. — Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs,, 
and ordered to be printed. 
To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit for the consideration of Congress, and with a view to the 
adoption of such measures in relation to the subject of it as may be 
deemed expedient, a copy of a note of the 8th instant, addressed to the 
Secretary of State, by the minister-resident of the Hanseatic republics 
accredited to this government, concerning an international agricultural 
exhibition to be held next summer in the city of Hamburg. 

Abraham Lincoln. 

ll'asliiiigtoii. January 9, 1863. 



THE HANSEATIC MINISTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 

Hanseatic Legation, 
Washington, D. C, January 8, 1863. 

Sir : _ The United States Consul at Hamburg, Mr. James H. Ander- 
son, has already by a dispatch dated the 10th of November last, and pub- 
lished in the National Intelligencer of the 25th ultimo, called your at- 
tention to the Great International Agricultural Exhibition which, with, 
the co-operation of the German Agricultural Society, is to be held next 
summer in Hamburg. 

At the application of the leading committee of the said exhd)ition, 
I have now been instructed by the Hamburg syndic of foreign affairs, 
to lay its prospectus, containing a list of the premiums whic h will be 

1 Mr. McDonald, who was many years U. S. Vice Consul at Hamburg, 
refers in his note to President Lincoln's message in belialf of the Hamburg 
International Exhibition. James R. McDonald, was Un- only American: 
merchant of prominence in the city of Hamburg. 

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• awarded, and the rules for the regulation of the whole enterprise, be- 
for you, and to invite the United States government to lend it a powerful 
support, and to encourage the American farmers, inventors, and me- 
chanics in sending their contributions to that great fair. 

The triumph of the American reaper and the American mower on the 
occasion of the first industrial exhibition in London, in 1851, has not 
been forgotten in Europe; and the managers of the first international 
agricultural exhibition, now about to be held in Germany, are anxious 
to see these triumphs of the American genius renewed and increased. 
Great as the impression was which the American exhibitors produced 
last year at the world's fair in London, it was generally acknowledged 
that this country could scarcely be said to have been fairly represented. 
Congress having declined to facilitate a proper representation of the in- 
dustrial interests of the United States on that occasion. 

It is obvious that the heavy expense of freight, transportation, agencies, 
etc., must deter many a farmer, or inventor, anxious as he may be to 
compete with those of other nations, from availing himself of such an 
opportunity to gain fame abroad, and new markets for the most useful 
products, if not assisted by his own country. The governments of the 
most important European states have, therefore, declared their readiness 
to further the object by remitting the duties on articles exhibited at the 
Hamburg fair and reimported, and by reducing the rate of freights on 
such articles when transported by the railroads belonging to the several 
states, etc. Similar encouragement is, considering the great distance, 
still more needed in regard to the American exhibitors. It is true the 
Hamburg and New York Steamship Company have offered to carry 
American products, machinery, and other implements destined for the 
Hamburg International Agricultural meeting of 1863, at a rate of freight 
25 per cent, below their usual rates for the same articles. But it is 
apprehended that this will not suffice; whereas it cannot be doubted 
that the United States would make a grand show at the exhibition, and 
convince the continental nations of their ability to compete with them in 
agricultural as well as industrial implements, if their contributions could 
be forwarded to Hamburg by a government vessel. 

In recommending the preceding remarks and suggestions to your 
favorable consideration, I need not dwell on the material advantages 
likely to accrue to the United States, and many of their citizens, from 
their participation in the proposed exhibition. But I venture to add that 
the government and the people of the United States would strengthen the 
existing sympathies and gain new ones, if, in the midst of a great war, 
they give such signal proof of their excelling in the arts and occu- 
l^alions of peace. 

I avail myself of this opportunity, sir. to offer to you renewed as- 
surances of my high consideration. 

r. schleiden. 
Hon. Wii.i.i.wi H. Seward, 

Secretary of State of the United. States, Washington, D. C. 
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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, January 20, ICS63. 

My dear Son : — I think things look favorable for the United 
States. We will yet put down this Rebellion. Were it not for 
the assistance the Rebels receive from Europe, they would have 
been crushed before this. Watch them and their sympathizers 
closely. Think of the blood shed for our country by your an- 
cestors, by your grandfather James Anderson, your great grand- 
father Thomas Anderson, and others. The whole of the name 
— relatives of ours — have been true patriots from the Revolu- 
tion down to this time. Remember the firm stand of Major 
Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter. And his brother Charley^ 
is now in the army, and has been since he and his family were 
driven out of Texas by a rebel mob. 

Col. Jas. H. Godman has returned home from the Army of 
the Potomac, with severe wounds received at the battle of Fred- 
ericksburg, Va., but he is doing well. He was wounded in the 
right leg in two places. One ball passed through the thick part 



1 Gov. Charles Anderson, son of Col. R. C. Anderson, of the Revolution, 
was born at his father's residence, called Soldiers' Retreat, near the present 
city of Louisville, Ky.. June 1, 1814. His father, a member of the Society of 
the Cincinnati, was Surveyor General of the Virginia Military District, be- 
tween the Scioto and the Little Miami Rivers in Ohio, and between the 
Cumberland and Green Rivers in Ky. Charles graduated fi-om Miami Uni- 
versity in 1833. He and his brother Robert Anderson. U. S. A., afterwards 
Gen. Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, then bought a plantation 
of 1000 acres near St. Louis, called Herdsdale. This estate which Charles 
managed, was on a stream near the Darracks where the young army officer 
was stationed. Charles decided to leave Herdsdale, and he and his brother 
conveyed it to Frederick Dent, and later it became the property of his son- 
in-law Gen. U. S. Grant. Charles Anderson then studied law, married, settled 
in Dayton, O., and in 1S44 became a member of the Ohio Senate. His health 
failing, he made the tour of Lurope, and finally settled on a large estate in 
Texas. Here in 1860-1 his patriotic Union sentiments aroused great ani- 
mosity. He was ordered to leave the state in forty days, then imprisoned, 
losing much of his property, but finally with the aid of a Union lady and a 
loyal German, he escaped into Mexico. After many perils he got back to 
Ohio. He was appointed colonel of the 93d Reg. O. V. I. His courage, his 
ability, his miraculous escape from death at the battle of Stone River, and 
his eloquence made him Lieutenant Governor of the State, and the death of 
Governor Brough made him Governor of Ohio. He moved to his large "iron 
estate" on the Cumberland River, and died in Paducah, Ky., Sept. 2, 1S95. 
Thus passed a brilliant, highly cultured, erratic, companionable patriot, 
of high notions of honor and integrity. Gov. Anderson's able patriotic 
nephew. Gen. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A., (retired), is now commandant 
of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, at Sandusky, Ohio. 

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>of the thigh, and another through the leg below the knee, the 
ball passing between the two bones, fracturing but not breaking 
either entirely in two. He is in fine spirits. 

Your cousin Eugene commanded his company in the great 
battle of Murfreesboro, under Gen. Rosecrans, and came out 
safe himself, but lost a number of his men in killed and wounded. 
Not one from our town was hurt, but several from our county 
fell in the battle, among them Judge Snyder's son George. 

The Marion Unionist has suspended. The editor, Bill 
Dumble, has given up * * *, and his Ijrother Sam. has joined 
the army. So you will no longer receive this paper. The 
* -I- * paper I will not send you. I will have nothing to do 
with such a rebel sheet. 

Give yourself no uneasiness about your matters here; I will 
attend to them strictly. Your dear wife Princess is with us at 
this time. She is not quite as well as usual, but your dear little 
Mary, and James T. are very well. Your son is a bright boy. 
i know you have a great deal to do but at your leisure read and 
study^the bible, wherein you will find great consolation. * * * 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Feb'y 3, 1863. 

My DEAR Son : — Your wife, children, and nurse, are still with 
us. The children are well, but Princess and the nurse are com- 
plaining. * * * 

I obtained a judgment for you against for $ . I 

■sued him at the request of his sureties. He was always slow, 
and now he is thought to be in failing circumstances. He is a 
hard drinker. * * * 

Will. Davis of the 96th Ohio, son of Dr. Davis, has just re- 
turned from Vicksburg. This regiment was in the hard fought 



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battle of Arkansas Post.i We gained a great vietory, took the 
Post, and 7000 prisoners (it is said,) including Gen. Churchill. 
The rebel officers are all now at Camp Chase, near Columbus. 
John B. \\'illiams, a brave young officer, was in the hght ; and 
several Marion county boys are among the killed and wounded. 
Mr. E. Burt, a prominent farmer east of town on the pike, had 
three brave sons in this battle, one of whom was killed on the 
field. 

A great many of our boys at the siege of Vicksburg are sick. 
J. H. Bunker, Sam. Tcrpany,- and little Henry Sowers of the 
96th are dead. Will. Davis, a nol)le young man and a brave sol- 
dier, is sick and emaciated. Bunker, who was returning with 
young Davis died on the Mississippi, Terpany died near Vicks- 
burg, and Sowers at Arkansas Post. 

what a host of widows and fatherless children in our midst! 
And there will be more before this wicked rebellion is crushed. 
It is awful to think that any people should bring about so much 
suffering in trying to break up so good a government as ours. 
God is also probably punishing us for our individual and na- 
tional sins. Our heavenly Father will sooner or later punish 
those who violate the divine precepts. * * * 

Europe is constantlv sending over articles contraband of war, 
and assisting the rel)els in other ways. Europe it appears to 
me, would delight in splitting this Union in twain. Yours truly, 

T. J. xAnderson. 

P. S. — I have read with deep interest a copy of your lengthy 
dispatch to the Secretary of State, dated Nov. 19, 1862, con- 
cerning the abduction and release of a little Dutch boy named 
Juda Polak. I am glad you were successful in your efforts to 
secure the release of the boy, and his return to New York from 
Hamburg. . T. J. A. 

1 Arkansas Post, occupied by Gen. Churchill, and 5,000 Confederates. 
On the night of January 10, 1863, Sherman ordered McClernand to advance 
against this post with his Union column, while Admiral Porter's gunboats 
shelled the Confederate rifle-pits. The assault was successfully made Janu- 
ary 11th, the fort captured, and 5,000 prisoners taken. It was intensely 
cold. 

- Terpany was a man without guile, patriotic and gonerous. His ex- 
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THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 
Washington, September 23, 1862. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg. 
Sir : — I transmit herev/ith a copy of the petition and its annexes^ 
of Joseph Polak, upon the subject of his son, a minor, [Juda Polak], ab- 
ducted and carried to sea from New York in a Hamburg bark. 

As neither the lad nor his father appears to be a citizen of the 
United States, the Department has no legal right to interpose, nor can 
it authorize any expenditures in the matter. 

You are requested however to use your good offices towards effecting 
the restoration of the boy to his home. I am. Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF .STATE TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Dep.-vrtment of State, 

W.a.shington, December 29, 1862. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg. 
SiK : — Your dispatch No. 147, has been received. The Department is 
much gratified with the information which you communicate touching 
the release of Juda Polak. The prompt proceedings which have been 
undertaken in this case are worthy of high commendation, and you will 
not fail to make known to His Excellency Syndicus Merck, the appre- 
ciation in whiclT the course of the Hamburg authorities is regarded by 
the Government of the United States. I am, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 

1 Juda Polak. a boy of 13 years, was abducted and carried to sea 
June 21, 18G2, aboard the Hamburg bark, Esther & Sophia, M. N. Von 
Hachten, master. He and his father Joseph Polak resided in New York, 
but were subjects of the King of the Netherlands. The "annexes," which 
were quite lengthy, included a dispatch from Mr. R. C. Burlage, the Consul 
General of the Netherlands at New York, and a dispatch from Mr. R. Van 
Limburg. the minister of the Netherlands at Washington, a son-in-law 
of Gen. I^ewis Cass. Van Limburg's dispatch dated Detroit, July 12. 1862, 
says: "I have spoken to General Cass in relation to the matter of Joseph 
and Juda Polak. The general says that the receiving and abduction of 
the child without the permission of the father is against the American law, 
and is an injury for which the father, who wa.s at the time under the 
protection of the American laws, can demand redress from the Secretary 
of State." 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES IT. ANDERSON. 

Marion^ Ohio^ Feb'y 15, 1863. 

Mv Dear : — At my desk this pleasant Sabbath afternoon try- 
ing to write my dear absent son : I wish I had more cheering 
news to communicate. Princie is still sick with typhoid pneu- 
monia, but is evidently improving. She sits up now and then 
and is very cheerful. Her cough has somewhat subsided, but is 
not yet overcome. We think she is now in a fair way to get 
well. She will write herself if able, and give you all the par- 
ticulars. 

We have much sickness here at present. George Durfee, who 
arrived home three weeks ago on sick furlough, died of camp 
erysipelas, and was buried to-day. It did not assume the ery- 
sipelatous type until about ten days ago. Since then the disease 
has been exceedingly contagious. Nearly all the young men in 
town who waited on him are now prostrated by this disease. 
Edward Durfee, John Ault, B. R. Durfee, John Dunlap, Luther 
Denison, T. S. Cummin, A. H. King,^ and many others with 
whom you are probably not acquainted are stricken. 

W^e received a letter yesterday from Lyman Spaulding, who 
reached Nashville on the 7th inst. He says there were 60 trans- 
ports for troops in our Cumberland river fleet, and 10 gunboats. 
The fleet reached Fort Donelson early this month, just in time to 
save the garrison, only 600 strong, under Colonel Harding, 
and besieged by a rebel force under Forrest and Wheeler, 4,500 
in number. When our gunboats opened fire, shelling the 
rebels, they fled in all directions. The fleet's appearance 

1 Mr. Amos H. Kling-. became one of the first business men of Marion 
county, and amassed a fortune estimated by some at one million dollars. 
H(; is the wealthiest man in that county and far from being the stingiest. 
He is beginning to be spoken of as a benevolent, philanthropic citizen. 
He has been treasurer of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, and held 
other honorable positions. The Republicans of the 13th Congressional Dis- 
trict nominated him for the 54th Congress, in 1894. when he might have 
been elected, but he declined the honor. They then nominated my old 
friend Stephen R. Harris, of Bucyrus, who was elected by a handsome 
majority, and made an excellent member. A. H. Kling was born in Pennsyl- 
vania, June 15, 1833, came to Marion early in the fifties, and married Miss 
Louisa M. Bouton, in 1859. The accomplished wife of Senator Warren G. 
Harding, the brilliant editor of the Marion Star, is a daughter of Mr. 
Kling. Senator Harding is a rising man. and after the November election, 
1903, will be called Governor Harding. 
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at this juncture was a mere accident. The rebels however 
knew it was coming, and expected to capture the fort and turn 
its guns upon the fleet. They were completely foiled, and lost 
a large number in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Aboard of 
our transports were 35,000 men on their way to reinforce Gen. 
Rosecrans, in Tenn. He defeated the rebels at Murfreesboro,^ 
and we expect another great battle soon. 

Many of the Marion soldiers are now on the Mississippi, at 
the siege of Vicksburg. By reference to your map you will see 
just where all of our great armies are operating, and the dis- 
tances that separate them. Since the war began I have learned 
more of the mhiutia of the geography of the country than I 
ever knew before. 

Monday, i6th. Col. Bradford R. Durfee is dangerously sick; 
also a young man who is a clerk in the store of Johnson & Uhler. 
This disease is indeed alarming. Princie is much better to-day. 
She will write tomorrow. 

I can hardly write at all for Hattie Fribley is talking, 
and Mary is laughing, playing, and cutting about, and so 
is the baby. You would be surprised to see how much James 
T. has improved. He sits alone, and will walk I think before 
you see him again. He is a good child, and gives as little 
trouble as any one I ever knew. 

Mary- says I must tell you that she often goes shopping with 
Annie, and talks German with the German clerks, and goes to 
church every Sabbath too. Annie is now getting ready to go up 
street, and Mary is on tiptoe to go. The nurse is dressing her, 
and as it is a pleasant day I think it will benefit her. 

1 The ffrent battle of Murfreesboro was fought December 31, 1862-Jan- 
uary 1, ISfi.'!. Gen. Brag-g with .38,000 Confederates, engaged Gen. Rosecrans 
with 43,000 Union troops. Rosecrans lost, all told 11,578. Another authority 
says he lost 1,53.3 killed, 7.245 wounded, and 3,000 prisoners. Official Con- 
federate records show Bragg's loss was 1,294 killed, 7,945 wounded, 1,027 
captured or missing. His loss was probably greater. Storms prevented a 
general engagement on January 2, and 3, and on the 4th it was discovered 
that Bragg had retreated the night before. He was not pursued by Rose- 
crans. who had lost 28 pieces of artillery, and much of his wagon train. 
Great military skill was shown by both Rosecrans and Bragg in this ter- 
rible battle. In Pox's Losses in the American Civil War, it is stated that 
the Union army lost in this battle 13,249 as follows: 1,7.30 killed. 7,802 
wounded, and .3,717 captured or missing. 

2 The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Anderson. 

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Tuesday, 17th. I would make no preparations for house- 
keeping. Princess may not be able to take charge of a house, 
nor be able to return to Hamburg as soon as you expect her. 
She does not wish me to write anything to alarm you ; thinks 
there is nothing to cause alarm. I certainly hope there is not. 
But you know how insidious are lung affections ; to-day almost 
well, tomorrow quite the reverse. Mr. Tillotson,^ who has sold 
his family residence on East Center street to Mr. John W. Bain, 
intends I believe to remove to Illinois with his family in a few 
months. The residence will become the property of the M. E. 
Church, and ])e used as a parsonage. * * 

Your aft'ectionate mother. . 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, Feb'y 16, 1863. 

Dear Brother: — You perhaps think by my silence that I 
•care nothing for you, but you are much mistaken. You have 
been well supplied with letters for Princess has written every 
mail, and mother and father quite often. * * * 

Our people at present, are low spirited. Until the last few 
weeks, we have been as it were a chosen people, for our soldiers 
have been wonderfully shielded from sickness and death. But 
we are now having our turn of misfortunes. Many deaths have 
occurred in the army, and there is now much sickness at home. 
Yesterday I attended the funerals of George Durfee, and Sam. 
Terpany. Both were soldiers in the 96th O. V. I. Sam died 
on a boat on the Mississippi river, and was buried at Vicksburg. 
George came home with camp fever, but got better and was able 

1 Mr. Samuel Tillotson, who married Miss Anh Eliza Johnson, half 
sister of Mrs. Thomas J. Anderson. Mr. Tillotson was a bright intelligent 
active man. His children, Josephine L., Elizabeth V., Thomas Eugene, 
Charles I., George J., and Hannah Louise, were intelligent and amiable, 
and devoted to their parents and their home. 

I have a letter from Josephine in which she refers to her aunt as 
follows: "Your mofher was a great reader, and kept herself posted on all 
the events of the day. Her home on Center street was a favorite place 
for young people to congregate when Orrel was a young lady, and later 
-when Annie was. Your mother was of a cheerful temperament, looked on 
the bright side of life, and had a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Her 
laugh was contagious. She enjoyed young people, made them welcome, so 
■we always had a good time there." 

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to be about, wben he was attacked with erysipelas, and died last 
Friday after suffering two or three weeks. His death was a 
great loss to his relatives and friends, and in fact to the com- 
munity, for he was a very good boy; but he is not mourned as 
lost for he died a happy Christian. Marion Corn of the same 
regiment, died of lung fever, and his remains were brought home 
last Tuesday. Justin Bunker of the same regiment died aboard 
of a boat on the Mississippi, and was buried on Island No. 82. 
John Marshall Godman, and Walter James of that regiment, are 
now lying sick down south. Will. Davis of that regiment, is 
now at home on sick furlough, and looks wretched. This regi- 
ment has been very unfortunate. All of George Durfee's friends 
who watched over him, have been attacked with the disease of 
which he died. His uncle Col. B. R. Durfee^ is lying low, not 
expected to live. The same may be said of A. H. Kling, Ed. 
Durfee, Mr. Beverly W. Brown, a merchant, and others. 
Thomas S. Cummin, and Luther Denison have it. J. Wesley 
Fribley, of the 96th is dead, and Mr. Edward F. Hoffman of the 
I2i.st. Adam Kraner died last week of hemorrhage of the lungs, 
and his parents it is said, find it hard to bear their loss. 

still continues his downward course of drunkenness 

and debaucher}'. * * * 

We are now holding "protracted meetings," and many have 
been converted, among the number old Mr. Christ. Brady,- and 
Jay Williams. 3 Mr. Parker is now our preacher, and he is 
one of the best who ever occupied otn- pulpit. He is very elo- 
quent ; I wish you could hear him ; I know you would like 
him. -All send love. Your sister, 

Annie. 

^ A prominent lawyer, banker and capitalist; a man with a great heart. 

- A very old man and the owner of a very large stock farm. He was 
called "an honest, hard working, hard drinking man." 

2 Jay W. Williams: I knew him from infancy; he was a correct boy, 
and like his father, the late Judge Joseph J. Williams, is a high-minded' 
honorable man. His mother was a lady of much ability; and his sister 
Mary when married to Rev. John D. Stokes, was considered beautiful and 
charming. In 1902 I received a lengthy letter from Mrs. Stokes, in which 
she says: "Your sister Annie was one of my chosen friends, and Cora, 
the sweet motherless baby we all cherished and petted. I loved your 
mother dearly. Always, from early childhood, when sent to your father's 
house on an errand, your mother would greet me kindly and say: 'Wei! 
honey, what can I do for you?' or use some other endearing expression. 
In those days such kind words were rarely lavished on children." 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Feb'y 1863. 

Dear James : — We are all very well now only Princie, who 
retains a little of her cough, though she is quite well otherwise. 
She appears to be about as well now as when she started to Ger- 
many two years ago. Her life may be prolonged by spending 
her winters in a milder climate than ours. Lena, who is con- 
trary and deceitful has harassed her very much, and she has 

a great controversy wuth M all the while. She has not 

intellect enough to have the care of children, though she seems 
to be kind to the babe. 

I wish }ou were here to dine with us to-day, for we will 
have a good dinner and I want to see you very much. * * * 
J must acknowledge my energies are somewhat paralyzed. I 
cannot endure what I once could. Old age is coming on. and 
it is harder for me to exert myself. I am now sitting in the 
back parlor. Will you kindly look in? Princie with her work 
is sitting in a rocking chair, the babe is sleeping in Cora's crib, 
while I am writing. The room is cheerful and nice and warm. 
See ! the baby is awake ! Princie has taken it up, and is rock- 
ing it to sleep. Now follow me down stairs. Here Annie is 
ironing, Cora and Mary playing, and Lena (the nurse) pottering 
about. * * * 

Your second dispatch to the Secretary of State, dated Dec. 
24, 1862, respecting the Great Liternational Agricultural Exhi- 
bition at Plamburg, has appeared recently in our papers. * * * 

Henry King called at the house last evening for letters and 
papers wdiicli he will take to Lyman. As you may feel disposed 
to write to him, this is his address: Lieut. L. Spaulding, 121 
Reg. O. V. L, Co. B, r/a Nashville, Tcnn., on flic inarcli. It 
will follow him. I think that Lyman is more in his element and 
happier than he has been for a long time. John Chambers was 
brought home from camp, and died soon after. Cora just now 
came in, and wishes me to send her love, and to tell you that she 
has been going to school all winter. Mary might have gone, 
luit her mother was afraid she might get the whooping cough. 

I was told yesterday that Mr. was going to write to 

you. If it were not for the respectability of his relatives he 

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would not be noticed. He will never be anytbing but a poor 
drunken sot. Any man tbat will babitually drink to intoxica- 
tion must consent to take a very low seat in tbe community. 

I wisb you could just now see little James. He is sittino- on 
tbe carpet plaving, and will walk I tliink in a fortnight. Now I 
fancy I hear you saying : if you have nothing more interesting 
to write, better stop. Princie begins to dread the return voyage. 
I hope it will be a pleasant one. Lena is getting restless and 
wants to run about. We are fully convinced that she has no 
regard for truth. * * * j ^j-,-, proud to have a son in the 
service of his country at this critical period of her history. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Department of St.a.te, 

Washington, February 19, 1863. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

Consul of file United States at Hamburg. 
Sir : — Your dispatch No. 161 has been received, and a copy sent tO' 
the office of the National Intelligencer for publication. I am. Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 

JAMES II. ANDERSON TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 

Published by order of the Department of State in the National Intel- 
ligencer, of Washington, February 20, 1862. 

HAMBURG INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 

United States Consulate, 
-^^ jijj Hamburg, December 24, 1862. 

Sir : — I have the honor to inform you that Baron von Merck called 
on me a few days ago as the president of the Hamburg International 
Exhibition, as he did on the representatives of other countries in this 
city, and placed in my hands a revised edition of the programme and 
catalogue of the Exhibition, several numbers of which I have already 
sent to the Department, and to the presidents of several of the State 
Agricultural Societies. He expressed an ardent desire that the United 
States should occupy an important place in the exhibition, and gave 
many reasons why our country should be suitably represented, most of 

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whicli have been enihodied in furnier dispatches and need not be re- 
peated here. He iiifornied me that his brother, Syndicns Mercl<, the 
Minister of Foreign Affairs, wonhl address a note to iJr. Schleiden, the 
Hansealic Minister at Washinsion. on the snl)ject of liie exhibition, to 
persuade our Government to encourage and sustain the enterprise, as 
well as to enable the minister to impart all needful information con- 
cerning the same. 1 am fully of the opinion, from my interview with 
the Baron, that our countrymen would meet with fair play and be in 
every respect satisfied. I will merely say in conclusion, for the en- 
couragement of our people at home, that I have just received from an 
American occupying a high position in London, a letter containing the 
following paragraph : 

"Out of the thirty one specimens of machinery exhibited by citizens of 
the United States at the great international exhibition just closed, twenty- 
eight won medals — a very nuich larger proportion than any other 
nation. What a pity we did not make a better showing. * * * I 
hope our people will be better represented at Hatnburg next year. I hope 
you will make a great effort to bring it about." 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

James H. Anderson, 



U. S. Consul. 



Hon. W. H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. Jl'asliiiigtou, D. C. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES IT. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April 3d, 1863. 

My dear Son: — Yours of tlie 12th of March came to hand 
yesterday, the 2d day of April — my l)irthday. That day I was 
62 years of age. I enjoy pretty good health, and if not crippled 
would make a good soldier to fight rehels. My will is good but 
my flesh is weak. * * * 

If there is any one thing that I despise more than another, it 
is a rebel to our glorious Union. Being a Virginian by birth, I 
inherited some of the spirit of the old patriots of the Old Domin- 
ion, but not of the present race, represented by Wise, Letcher, 
Mason, Floyd, Lee and others. * * * I know that you will 
stand by the glorious stars and stripes, and vindicate our riglits 
at all times. 

Your wife and daughter went to Delaware last week, but we 
look for them back tomorrow. They will return to Hamburg 

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about the ist of May. Your son James is quite well, and a fine 
little boy he is. He can almost walk. Lena the nurse is well. 
Your wife's brother, D. S. Miller, expects to go over with the 
family. Mr. Tillotson has sold out, and will start with his family 
in a few days to Illinois. He has bought quite a large farm 
near Charleston, where his son-in-law, Wm. L. Tirrill, is practic- 
ing law. God bless you. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, May 5, 1863. 

My dear Son : — I am much improved since I last attempted 
to write, though I have not recovered my usual strength. Princie 
received her tickets yesterday, and expects to leave for New York 
one week from to-day. She is partially relieved of her usual 
severe cough, but she got up this morning with a headache in- 
duced by coughing. She is now writing letters apprising friends 
of the time of her departure. Poor child, she has Ijeen exceed- 
ingly anxious to get the tickets that will enable her to return to 
you. I fear the journey will be almost too much for her. I 
think I understand her better now than ever before. To keep up 
she needs sympathy and excitement. 

Her servant is a trifling creature who has given her a great 
deal of trouble all winter. She was very saucy, and even went 
so far as to shake her fist over Princie when she was sick abed. 
This threw her into cramps, almost convulsions. In this condi- 
tion Annie found her. and running to me said Princie was dying. 
I hastened to her bedside, chafed her vigorously, poured brandy 
down her throat, and brought her out. I thereafter kept the 
woman in the kitchen until she agreed to do better. Princie 
wanted to turn her out of doors which she richly deserved, but 
1 thought it unadvisable on account of your position, etc. 

May 6th. We are happy in the receipt of a letter from you, 
and copies of letters, and your photograph. It looks like you, 
but you have changed. * * * 

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I am low spirited this morning-; we are hearing bad news 
from our army at Chancellorsville/ Va. I have no heart to 
repeat it. Princie leaves here on Tuesday, and I expect to bid 
her good-by for the last time on earth. She cannot certainly 
last more than a year longer. Some great change must come 
over her if she pass through another winter. Do everything in 
your power to make her remaining days pleasant. 

I judge from the letters that you have received that your 
labors in behalf of the Hamburg International Exhiljition are 
appreciated. 

Your affectionate mother. 



DR. GERHARD HACHMANN TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

COMMITTEE OF THE HAMBURG INTERNATIONAL AGRI- 
CULTURAL EXHIBITION, 1863. 

Hamburg, March 20, 1863. 
Hon. James H. Anderson, 

L^ 5". Consul. 
Sir : — I have ihe honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 
of the l"2t)i inst., together with the printed document on the same sub- 
ject by your government. I am instructed to say that the Committee 
have received these proofs of the great interest which your government 
takes in our undertaking with the liveliest satisfaction; and have al- 
ready taken steps to have it generally known among the agricultural 
public of Germany. Your share in the matter is also fully recognized; 
and it is my pleasant duty to thank you most sincerely for the able man- 
ner in which you have called the attention of your government and 
countrymen to what it is hoped will be an occasion of bringing from your 
country the wonderful products of your agricultural and mechanical 
skill.'^ 

1 The famous battle of Chancellorsville was fought May 1-4, 1S63, 
mainly on the 2d and ;^d. The Union army consisting of IJSO.OUO troops 
commanded by Hooker, was defeated by the Confederate army 62,000 
strong, under Lee. Hooker showed neither .skill, nor disposition to advance 
in this destructive battle. Gen. Carl Schurz's division fled like sheep before 
Stonewall Jackson's sudden and terrific attack. Late in the day. May 2d. 
Jackson was flred upon by mistake by his own men, and mortally wounded. 
The Union army in this wasteful fight lost in killed and wounded 12.107, 
and 5,000 captured or missing. The Confederates lost in killed and wounded 
10,266. and 2,753 captured or missing. Fox, in Losses in the Civil War, says, 
the Union army lost 17,287 men as follows: 1,606 killed, 9,762 wounded, and 
5,919 captured or missing; and the Confederate army lost 12,764 as follows: 
1,665 killed, 9,081 wounded, and 2,018 captured or missing. 

- In recognition of his services, several similar letters were received 
'by Consul Anderson from the officers of the Exhibition. 

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Tlie Committee earnestly hope that your government will be enabled 
to take measures to aid intending exhibitors from your country, and are 
happy to inform you that the principal countries and states of Northern 
Europe have already appointed commissioners, and granted aid towards 
being represented here. I am, Sir, 

Your obedient servant. 

Gerhard Hachmann, LL. D. 

Secretary. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, May 1863. 

Dear Son : — We yet own some "tax-titles," but tinder a re- 
cent decision of Judge William Lawrence, the delinquent land 
owners may redeem them of the purchaser on payment of the 
jjurchase money and simple interest. In the case against George 
Miller, in which Judge Bowen, your attorney, marshaled the liens 
against his real property, the c|uestion of statutory penalty was 
fairly presented to the court. 

How you will come out in the matter of "security money," 
that you paid for George Miller, is not yet determined. I fear that 
you will lose all or nearly all that you paid as his surety. Our 
tax-claim is a preferred lien, but we will hardly get above six 
per cent, interest on our investment. No penalty will be allowed. 
I am done buying tax-titles. I bought none last winter, for 
such a decision as that of Lawrence, gives land-owners the use 
of one's money at 6 per cent, with the privilege of repaying it 
just when they please. 

Your family leave my house Tuesday morning. May 26th at 
5 o'clock, for Hamburg, by way of New York. * * * 

We will concjuer this rebellion and again be a united people. 
Slavery will be so crippled that it never can again flourish, nor 
ought it, for it is and has been the great curse of this nation. 
It must fall. (]en. Grant and Gen. Banks are using up the rebels 
in Louisiana and Mississippi. 

However well disposed I may feel I cannot show^ any favor to 
rebels or their northern sympathizers. It appears that the latter 
wt)uld sink the ( iovernment, to save the * * *, but they will 
sink tliemselves lower than the Tories of the Revolution. 

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Your aunt, Mrs. Julia Dunlevy Flotner.i is dead. She died 
at her home in Ilhnois, April 28, 1863. 

Your father, 

T. y. Anderson. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO J. H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 

Washington, April 21, 1863. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg. 
Sir : — Your dispatch No. 183 has been received. I am directed to 
inform you that Governor Wright, our late Minister to Prussia will 
probably go to Hamburg for the purpose of representing the interests of 
the United States, at the International Exhibition. I am. Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 



JOHN W. CHAMBERS TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

American Institute, 
lames H. Anderson, Esq. New York, May 8, 18G3. 

Dear Sir: — I take great pleasure in informing you that at a meet- 
ing of the American Institute of the City of New York, held last even- 
ing, you were unanimously elected a Corresponding Member thereof. 
The American Institute was chartered in 1829, for the purpose of encour- 
aging and promoting Domestic Industry, in this State and the United 
States, in agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts. 

Yours very respectfully, 

John W. Chambers, 
Acting Recording Secretary. 

1 She was the mother of William H. Plotner, of Union county. Ohio, and 
the grandmother of Dr. George F. Plotner, M. D., of West Mansfield, O. 
She was my mother's sister, and was born December 25, 1800, in Jefferson 
county, Ohio. My father in a letter to me dated Marion, Oct. 11, 1851, says: 
"Your uncle John and aunt Julia Plotner, and all their children except 
William are here. They are on their way to southern Illinois, where they 
will settle, near the home of your aunt Mary Tarr. They will leave here 
on Monday next; this is Saturday." My brother Clay writing to me from 
Marion, October 25, 1851, says: "Uncle John Plotner, and his family, were 
here a week or two ago, on their way to Illinois, and stopped with us six 
da.vs." At that time I was away from home at school. 

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JOHN W. CHAMBERS TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

American Institute, 

New York, May 30, 1863. 
.James H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul at Hamburg. 
Dear Sir : — With this I enclose a notice of your election as a Cor- 
responding Member of this Institute, also a copy of the charter and 
by-laws, and a circular issued by the Trustees in relation to the Inter- 
national Agricultural Exhibition at Hamburg. The American Institute 
has appointed you a delegate to represent the Association at the Exhibi- 
tion, in connection with Mr. C. W. Wennberg of this city, a member of 
the Institute, who will present this letter, and the credentials of your 
appointment. We shall be pleased to have from you a report upon the 
contributions and proceedings of the Exhibition, for the Institute. With 
-assurance of very high consideration and esteem, I remain. 
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

John W. Chambers, 
Acting Recording Secretary. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, June 8, 1863. 

Dear Son : — How are you to-day and how will you be when 
this reaches you? "is the question." But I must wait long, so 
long for an answer, f miss Princie and the children every day 
very much. And I am very anxious about them as I naturally 
should be, knowing them to be on the boisterous deep. My 
anxiety was doubled on reading Eliza D's letter' written in 
New York, in which she says "Princie was feeling very bad, and 
spitting blood." How is the baby doing? What does his papa 
think of him ? Don't you think him greatly improved by his 
American tour? .And little Madie : — what is she thinking and 
doing? Does she ever think of grandma? Papa and mamma 
must kiss these babies five or six times for grandma. 

How did the nurse demean herself on the way? Was she 
given a passage in the steerage, or in the first cabin ?2 She will 
be apt to find out before she dies that she was well used and didn't 

1 Wife of Lieut. T. IT. Dicker.son. 
- In the first faV)in. 

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know it. Princie had agreed to take her hack, and 1 thought 
she ought to do so. hut her conduct was sucli that she was un- 
deserving of such treatment. * * * 

Well, dear Princie, Mr. Parker^ at three o'clock this morn- 
ing, exchanged worlds. He could not be convinced that he was 
about to die until Saturday, for he had a strange delusion that 
he was going to be brought down to the very gates of death, and 
then by supernatural power raised to preach the gospel of Jesus 
for many years. Put on Saturday, feeling that his end was near 
he gave up, and wished to be alone with his wife. On the Sabbath, 
the holy sacrament was administered. Just a short time before 
he breathed his last he said to his mother: "I am all right, I 
am safe, and it is almost over. I shall soon meet our friends who 
have gone before and tellthem the good news." Thus passed 
away a good man. He crossed the river of death in safety. The 
cold waves of Jordan had no terrors for him. When last win- 
ter you Princie, were low with the same disease, and Mr. Parker 
kindly called to see you, we didn't think that he would be sum- 
moned first, though I felt then that about one year more would 
wind up his earthly career. 

We are having the coldest weather ever known in June. The 
first day of the month was clear and cool, and it blew a hurri- 
cane almost all day. Such a day I never experienced. How I 
suffered, thinking of Princie and the little ones on the ocean ! 
Since then it has been so cool that we are uncomfortable without 
fire. The atmosphere "goes to say" we shall have a frost to- 
night, but we have often thought so the past week, and still God 
has taken care of our interests. 

Mrs. John Gurley who was just in, sends her love. Judge- 
Bartram,- who has been sick for two weeks is better now. Mr. 
Clark,-"^ who has also been very sick is mending. * * * 

I trust that Princie will continue to drink black tea as it 
afifects the nerves less than green. She is in very delicate health, 
nervous and easily worried, and I hope you will see that nothing 
occurs to perplex her. 

1 Rev. Thomas Parker, pastor of the M. E. Church at Marion. 

2 Hon. John Bartram, a prominent citizen. 

3 Harvey Clarlt. leading- Methodist and farmer. His family stood high' 
in the community. 

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The lmii(ll)Ox you sent Annie she received in good condition, 
-and was much pleased with the contents. ]\Iay divine love and 
mercy be over and about you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MR. AND MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, June 8, 1863. 

My dear Princess: — You have not yet reached Hamburg I 
know, but I think you will get these lines soon after you land. 
I like my bonnet, gloves, fan, etc., very much. Mary^ is much 
pleased with her mantilla, and I think it and the other articles 
•quite pretty.- * * * 

Mother gave you the particulars of Mr. Parker's death. His 
family feel their loss greatly, and have our sympathy. Mr. 
Parker was a g'ood man and well prepared to die. He looks 
natural in death, and a sweet expression of contentment and 
peace is on his face. He will be buried tomorrow afternoon at 
3 o'clock ; and the funeral sermon at his particular request will 
be preached by the Rev. L. B. Gurley. On Sunday morning 

at II o'clock the corpse of , who drank himself to death, 

was found in a stable in town. Thus two men died, and what a 
contrast ! One the most beautiful of all deaths, and the other 
the most miserable. 

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Phillips have just been called home on 
account of the sudden illness of Mr. Clark, the father of Mrs. P. 
Your friends make daily inquiries, and though much concerned, 
think you will soon arrive safely in Germany. We were all very 
g-lad to hear that Gov. Wright was a fellow-passenger from 
New York to Hamburg. Write us a good long letter and send 
it if convenient, with the things I have ordered, by Gov. Wright.^ 

Your sister, 

Annie. 

1 Miss Mary B. 'Williams. 

- The articles referred to were sent by me some weeks before from 
Hamburg. 

•■'Gov. Joseph A. Wright, born in Pennsylvania, April 17, 1810; removed 
to Indiana when a mere youth; studied at the Indiana University; was 
admitted to the bar; sat in V)oth branches of the legislature; was a member 

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My Dear Brother: — I should Hke to see you, and wish you 
could return and remain long enough to make us a good visit. 
If I may judge by your picture, you are in better health than 
when you went away. * * ''' Well, what do you think of 
your darling son? Isn't he a noble boy? If his life be spared 
he will make a good man, and I hope a great man. 

I should like to visit you, and see your house, and how it 
is furnished. I should like to go to Europe, but fear that it is 
my fate to live and die here. * * * I now wish I bad accom- 
panied Princess as far as New York. * * '■' 

Society here is not what it was for nearly all of our best 
young men are in the army. Well, the sheet is full. You now 
owe me three letters. Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 23d, 1863. 

Dear James: — I received yours of the 23(1 ult. in due time, 
and we were all glad to hear from you. How did Princess and 
the children stand the sea-voyage? * * * 

The Union party held a grand State Convention, at Columbus 
last week, and nominated the following ticket : For governor, 
John Brough; for lieutenant governor, Charles Anderson, 
(brother of Major, now Cen. Anderson of Ft. Sumter fame) ; 
for supreme judge, Hocking H. Hunter; for auditor of state. 
Col. James H. Godman, etc. The copperheads, or rebel sympa- 
thizers nominated the worst ticket possible. Think of it : C. L. 
Vallandigham for governor. Tbey might .as well have nominated 
Jeff. Davis. I am glad that many of the Democrats will not sup- 
port him. 

We have not yet taken A'icksburg, but it will be done. We 
are now raising volunteers, trying to make up one more com- 

of Congress 184.3-45; governor of Indiana eight years; minister to Prussia 
1857-01; U. S. Senator 1861-62: U. S. Commissioner to the Hamburg Inter- 
national Exhibition 1S63; and again minister to Prussia from 1865. until 
his death at Berlin, May 11, IsiiT. While Gov. Wright was at Hamburg 
and Berlin we became well aeiiuainted. I have in my possession many of 
his letters. 

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pany in this county. Lieut. W. Garrett is at the head of it. 
J. C. Johnston,! the attorney, has vohmteered. 

There will be a large quantity of tobacco and sorghum planted 
in the state this year. Tell the Germans this is the country for 
their future home, where they can be free men, and also that 
slavery will be about wiped out when this rebellion ceases.- 
Give my respects to D. S. Miller.^ Herewith find a letter from 
Mrs. Maggie Drake Pollock* to Princess. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, July 5, 1863. 

Dear Princie : — I received your letter mailed at Southamp- 
ton, Eng., and you may well believe we were much comforted 
in reading it, for we feared you would hardly stand the voyage. 
I am glad you had such good company, and that your servant 
behaved herself. We expected a letter from Hamburg yester- 
day, announcing your arrival, Init it failed. We shall look anx- 
iously for good news. 

I attended church to-day, and heard William D. Godman 
preach.^ It was one of the finest efforts. His whole soul was 

1 One of Marion's leading lawyers. His accomplished wife was a 
daughter of Rev. George Baker, son of Hon. Eber Baker, the founder of 
Marion. 

- 1 sent circulars in German and Frencli, all over Germany and some 
other countries, to encourage emigration. This proceeding had the approval 
of Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State. 

3 D. S. Miller made the tour of Europe with Gov. Joseph A. Wright of 
Ind., and then attended the celebrated Polytechnic School at Hanover. 

* Mrs. Pollock, now Douglas, is a sister of Hon. Thos. E. Drake, the 
able Superintendent of Insurance of the District of Columbia. 

s Rev. William D. Godman, born in Marion in 1829; the first graduate 
of the Ohio Wesleyan University; an ordained minister of the M. E. Church; 
an industrious man of ability and learning; and son of Gen. James H. and 
Ann Davis Godman. He lived many years in the far South, and labored for 
the good of the negro. He is now in Philadelphia. He sent me the follow- 
ing letter to his kinsman Rev. John McClintock, D. D., LL. D., a celebrated 
scholar, author and orator, and pastor of the American Chapel at Paris, 
1&60-4: "Rev. Dr. McClintock, Dear Brother: I take pleasure In introduc- 
ing to your acquaintance and kind regards, my friends the Hon. J. H. 
Anderson, and his lady Mrs. Anderson. I could wish for your family the 
pleasure of this acquaintance, and would feel myself under great obllga- 

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aroused. Ik-fore eoniinencing service he read from the pulpit 
a bulletin issued by the i 'resident to the people of tbe loval states, 
touching- tbe great battle now being fougbt by tbe Army of the 
Potomac, near Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania, tbe Rebel armv bav- 
ing invaded that state. It gave intelligence u\) to tbe 3d of 
July, which was encouraging, though our losses in othcers and 
men have been heavy. When commenting on tbe state of tbe 
country, William seemed to be inspired. His first prayer was 
certainly eloquent and pathetic, and gave the disloyal tbeir due 
portion. Some of his audience were covered with confusion, or 
I am mistaken. 

Princie, I feel as though I were all alone : 1 miss you and 
your dear babes so mucb. Annie has gone on her long talked of 
trip to P)ellefontaine. Maggie^ and Sophie- both wrote urg- 
ing her to visit them, and I bad to let ber go. Mr. Harvev 
Clark^ got a letter from bis daughter Nancy, informing him 
of her safe arrival at her home in California. She bad a pleas- 
ant journey, and likes tbe country. Your friends all inquire if 
we have heard from you. Mrs. Judge Bart ram came yesterdav 
purposely to inquire. I trust you are happily settled in \our new 
home, and that you have had a pleasant time at tbe ( ireat Exbi- 
bition. Write me a long letter. May God have you in His holv 
keeping. Yours affectionately. 



tions for the pleasant attentions you would be so happy in rendering- to my 
friends. Hoping this may find yourself and family in g-ood health, I remain 
Marion, Ohio, Yours fraternally 

11 May 1863. W. D. Godman.-' 

1 Marg-aret L. Drake, daughter of Daniel S. Drake and granddaughter of 
Judge W. S. Drake, was born Oct. 8, 1840. She first married Robert F. Pol- 
lock of Belief ontaine; her second husband was Robert D. Douglas, prominent 
in life insurance circles. They now reside in Indianapolis. 

- Sophie Gardner Reynolds, born Jan'y 16, 1837. daughter of Gen. T. S. 
Gardner of Bellefontaine, and niece of Capt. Andrew Gardner of Columbus, 
and Gen. Kennedy of Bellefontaine. Her husband. Mr. L. D. Reynolds is 
wealthy, and they live in Dayton. "Maggie and Sophie," were bright attrac- 
tive young ladies. 

3 Harvey Clark, a prominent Marion county stock grower, and farmer, 
was born in Windham, Conn., June 1, 1797, and died near Marion April 6, 1874. 
His wife was born in Rockingham county, Va., June 27, 1804, and died in Del- 
aware, O., Apiil IS, 1SS8. Their daughter Olive M. was born near Marion. 
Aug. 22, 1839. Her husband Philip Phillips, was born in Cassadoga, N. Y., 
Aug. 13, 1834. and died in Delaware, O., June 24. 1S!).5. Mrs. Olive Clark 
Phillips, now a resident of Delaware, O., still retains her amiable and win- 
ning qualities. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 5, 1863. 

Dear Son : — I received yours of May 28th: was glad to get 
so good and kind a letter. Read the copies of enclosed dis- 
patches with much interest. You speak of '^froubliiig" me with 
"these scraps." Don't think so; everything that affects you in 
any way interests me. * * * j think with you that you de- 
serve promotion, but the end is not yet. You are perhaps paving 
the way to future * * * And besides Mr. Lincoln's hands 
are very full. 1 believe he would like to do justice to every one. 
True, the officers and soldiers claim the greater share of the at- 
tention of the government. The times require it. But then if you 
were here, where you could witness the bitter complainings, and 
heartburnings of officers when superseded, or relieved of their 
commands against their will, or when arrested and court-mar- 
tialed, sometimes witbout the semblance of cause, the result of 
jealousy and intrigue of other officers anxious to supplant them, 
you*would feel that in your position, 3^ou were at least, not sub- 
ject to such annoyances. 

( )ur whole state is now aroused to the necessity of arming the 
militia to repel invasion. Yesterday officers were elected for the 
militia of this townshi]x They are to train and be ready to be 
called out at a moment's warning. (J how many of our brave 
men have fallen in the battle of Gettysburg. ^ Gen. John F. 
Reynolds was killed. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, lost a leg. Col. 
James S. Robinson of Kenton, was wounded, how badly I don't 
know. Col. W. T. Wilson of Upper Sandusky, was taken pris- 
oner. Will send you Tuesday's Commercial. Bv that time there 
will be something definite and decisive. 

^ Gettysburg, the memorable battle of the Civil War, the turning point 
of the struggle, occurred .July 1-3, 1863. In this bloody engagement, one of 
the most destructive in modern annals. fJen. Meade haa 92,000 Union troops 
actually in battle, and Gen. T^ee had about 78,000 Confederates, a total of 
170,000 men marshaled in this decisive contest. The Union army lost 3,072 
killed. 14.497 wounded. 5,434 prisoners or mis.sing, a total of 23.103; the Con- 
federates lost 2.592 killed. 12,709 wounded, and 5,150 captured or missing: — 
20,451 all told. 

The Comte d(^ Paris in bis history of the war says, the Union army hnd 
only 82,000 actually on tne field; and Fox, in his Losses in the Civil War. 
says, it is very doubtful if Meade had over 82,000 men on the field including 
the Sixth Corps, which was in reserve; and that Lee had only about 60.000 
men at Gettysl)urg present in action. 

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We occasionally get letters from Lyman Spaulding-. He ap- 
pears to be in good spirits. In his division the sale of ardent 
spirits is prohibited by iron military rule. He gels $110 per 
month, but is not able to save much. He sent home l)v Capt. 
Eb. Peters, for Cora's likeness. 

Mary was out in the orchard with me one day when the 
cherry trees were in Ijloom, and there were three small ones full 
of blows. I gave one tree to Mary, one to James, and one to 
Cora. Cora wants me to tell Mary, that her tree and James' 
"are just as full of ripe cherries as they can stick." 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, ()iii(), Jul)- 7, 1863. 

My DEAR Son : — I have plenty to write this morning if I 
should say anything about the war. To-day I send you a daily 
paper, which will give you an idea of the war in I^ennsylvania ; 
at Gettysburg we have had the severest fighting that has occurred 
since the war began, (ien. Lee's army, 80,000 strong, was met 
by the Union army under Gen. Meade of aliout the same or 
greater strength. The carnage was great, and the loss on both 
sides in killed, wounded, ])risoners and missing perhaps exceeded 
45,000. At this writing we have no exact information. We ex- 
pect to destroy t)r capture the Rel)el army' before it gets back 
to Va. That you may have the particulars of the battle, I will 
send you another paper tomorrow. Many of our Marion bovs 
were in the great battle just fought in Penn. The names of the 
killed and wounded we liave not yet learned. Col. J. S. Robin- 
son, of the 82d'0. V. I. was wounded. His regiment lost a 
great many officers and men. We have not heard of the casual- 
ties of the 4th Ohio, to which T. H. Dickerson and other neigh- 
bors belong. It was a part of the 2d corps, that suffered so 
severely. 

1 A capable general in the place of Gen. Meade, would have captured 
Lee's rebel army, and probably then and there ended the war. Failing- to do 
•so was the gigantic blunder of the war. 

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In Tennessee, Gen. Rosecrans keeps Gen. Bragg moving at a 
lively pace. Vicksburg still holds out, but our besieging troops- 
are doing well, and the city wall be taken soon. Capt. John !>. 
Williams, Capt. John Marshall Godman. and your cousin Capt. 
T. J. Anderson, Jr., arc all at Vicksburg. Capt. Eb. Peters, 
quar. mas. 121 reg. O. V. I. is now at home recruiting his health. 
W. P. Reed of Delaware, is colonel of this regiment. So much 
for army news. 

The weather is pleasant, but it is warm and dry. The grass 
crop is short. My potatoes, corn and tobacco look well. Yes- 
terday I mowed all the grass in my lot before stopping, so you 
may think I have pretty good health, and some strength yet. 

I do not know that I shall be able to get anything out of 
for what you paid for him as his surety, as he is deter- 
mined to claim a homestead. I will know the facts in the case 
better at our next special term of the Common Pleas in August. 

I want you to learn the German language. It will be of 
great advantage to you when you return. Bear this in mind. 
You may think it too much trouble, but no great oljject can be 
attained without toil of body, or mind, or both. 

Levi Anderson' will never recover I fear. He comes to 
town in the buggy occasionally, but has a bad cough. 

Later. It is now reported that Generals Longstreet and Hilf 
were not captured at Gettysbtn^g, and fears are entertained that 
Lee's entire army will safely recross the Potomac. The river 
however is so swollen that it will be difficult to ford it, and Lee's 
pontoon bridges are said to be destroyed. If Lee's army should 
escape capture, our pursuing forces will still inflict severe pun- 
ishment. 

Keep in good heart. We shall surely conquer the Rebels, but 
we must enlarge our army. A draft will take place soon. Every 
arrangement is making and almost completed for the draft. We 
are raising a company which is now almost full of six months 
volunteers. 

Business here is good. Persons in trade are doing well. 

^ A nephew of Judge Thomas J. Anderson. 



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Your friends A. H. Kling. J. J. Hane, and 1''. (i. Allen,^ are 
making monc}-. Love to Princess and the children. 

Your father, 

T. y. Anderson. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 20. 1863. 

Mv DEAR T')R0Tiii:r : — I was glad to learn that Princess was 
so well when she got l)ack to Plamhurg, and that you had things 
so nicely arranged for her reception, and that she was so well 
pleased with your new residence. I trust that it will prove a 
home indeed, and that you will all enjoy l)etter health, and be 
happier than you have ever been. How I should like to look in 
upon you some quiet evening when least expected. How are the 
little darlings, M- , and J ? 

I have just returned from a two weeks' visit to friends in 
Belief ontaine. I enjoyed myself, and formed some very pleas- 
ant acquaintances. I saw all my old Bellefontaine friends. 
Maggie is the same as of yore. Her husband Mr. Pollock is 
extremely feeble. Will hardly see another winter. * * * 

1 E. G. Allen, retired banker and capitalist, was born in Marion Nov. 
10, 1834, and was married June 5. 1860 to Maryanna. one of the handsome 
■daughters of Charles Baker, son of Eber the Founder. Curtis Allen, father 
of E. G., was born in Conn.. Feb. 23, 1796^ married Alma Ashley, March 17, 
1825, came to Marion in 1832. was the second Mayor of Marion, was a J. P. 
18 years, was postmaster 4 years, was it is said, one of the surveyors that laid 
■out Sandusky city, was fairly well educated, and died in Marion Sept. 10, 1853. 
His wife died April 15, 1888. The latter, born in Vermont March 3, 1797, 
was a descendant of a Revolutionary soldier, who with Gen. Ethan Allen 
and others captured Ft. Ticonderoga, in 1775. She had eleven uncles in the 
Revolution, including Gen. Munson, four of whom were carried to Eng. on 
prison ships. She was a cousin of Gay. Ethan Allen Brown of Ohio, was 
related to Judge Burchard of Ohio, and to the late President Benj. Harri- 
son, and was a life long friend of Horace Greely. 

April 22. 1902, Mr. E. G. Allen wrote me: "S. H. Bartram and myself 
are the oldest, now livmg here, born in Marion. Walter Clark is the next 
oldest. Wilson Peters, Mrs. Dr. T. P.. Fisher, and Mrs. C. Robbins are older 
residents than we. I have two sons — the second and third — who are largely 
engaged in the lumber business in Miss., and Ark. My third son has five 
sawmills in Ark. Charles, my oldest, is president of the Paulding, O., Na- 
tional Bank. My youngest, now 27 years old. is general manager of the 
Marion Oil and Supply Co. So you see all are busy. I am very proud of 
them. I have stepped down and out. Am taking it easy. I hope you are 
doing likewise. It does me good to hear from old friends:— so few of us 
are left." 

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Maggie is anxious to hear from Princess, and would like her 
picture and yours. Ellen Harper,* who is still at her father's 
returns home in two weeks. I attend a party there — at her 
father's — this evening. Ellen is going to send you some sort of 
a paper. I wish you were now at home. * * * 

A Democratic convention was held in town on Saturday, to 
nominate county officers. Mr. Hodder was a candidate for the 
legislature, hut was defeated. It greatly disappointed him, for 
he thought he was a popular favorite, and was confident of suc- 
cess. All the Democrat flags bore the names of Vallandigham 
and Pugh. * * * They do more harm than all of Morgan's 
men put together.- You will see in the papers an account of 
Morgan's raid in Ohio. * * * 

I suppose you hear from cousin Lizzie Tillotson, who is now 
having a gay time in the West. Why does Miss Annie Turrill 
neglect to answer my letter? I fear it never reached her. Mrs. 
Hattie Bartram is now at the home of her parents in Decatur, 111., 
making a visit. Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 22, 1863. 
Mv DEAR Son : — Our gallant armies are now quite success- 
ful. We have taken Vicksburg,^ and Port Hudson,'* on the 

1 Ellen Mary Bowen, the cultured fascinating and beautiful daughter of 
Judge Ozias Bowen, was united in marriage to John L. Harper, a young 
civil engineer employed in making preliminarj' surveys for a railroad. She 
was born in Marion January 7, 1834, and died in Indianapolis May 15, 1865. 

2 Gen. John H. Morgan, the guerrilla chieftain, with 3000 cavalrymen 
invaded Ind., July 9, 1863, and like freebooters came into Ohio, near Cin- 
cinnati, pillaging and plundering as they went. Beyond stealing bolts of 
calico and other useless articles, and horses, and burning barns, they accom- 
plished nothing and were mostly captured July 20, 1863. near Buffington' 
Island. Morgan and his men who then escaped, with the exception of 300 
who got across the Ohio river, were captured near Wellsville, C, July 26th 
by Major Way of the 9th Mich. Cav., and Major Rue of the 9th Ky. Cavalry. 
Morgan and his officers were imprisoned in the Ohio Penitentiary; his men- 
elsewhere. 

^ Pemberton, tVie Confederate general, after 47 days of siege surren- 
dered Vicksburg to Gen. U. S. Grant. July 4. 1SG3. The 21.000 officers and 
men of the garrison were paroled and allowed to return to their homes. 

^ After the f.all of Vicksburg, Gardner the Confederate General, surren- 
dered Port Hudson. La., and 6000 men. to (^en. N. P. Banks. July 9. 1863. 

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Txlississippi ; so the river is now ojieii to Xew ( )rlcans. We have 
taken Chattanooi:;-a, and are ])nrsuini;- r>rai;-i;"s arni\', which is 
retreating- into Georgia. 

The great guerrilla rebel, John Morgan, with a troop of 3000 
cavalry, crossed the Ohio river a few days ag-o into Indiana, and 
thence entered ( )hio. ()ur ( )hi() ]X'ople got after these danger- 
ous guerrillas, and capturetl many of them including Morgan 
himself. The raid made a great stir in ( )hio, hut Morgan's days 
of guerrilla warfare are over. It was Morgan who gave us so 
much troulile and did so much deviltr_\- in Kentucky. 

Our political opi)onents have nominated Peyton llord for 
representative — ^ an honest man and good citizen if he is a Demo- 
crat. We expect to nominate either Judge John I'artram, or 
Col. Everett Messenger. The colonel says he will not lie a can- 
didate. 

Col. W. T. \\ ilson^ of Cpper Sandnskv, was not killed as 
reported, but was taken prisoner a few days before tlie liattle of 
Gettysburg', and is now in Libbv prison in Iviclimond, \'a. Col. 
James S. Robinson of Kenton, was severelv wounded in the 
breast and shcjulder in this blooJv l)attle. Henry Folk, Adam 
Hain, and ^\. Jacoliy, of this county, each had a son killed in 
this battle. Dr. ( ). Ferris of Cpper Sandusky, was also taken 
jjrisoner. 

Did the box we sent you containing canned goods, etc., arrive 
in good condition? 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

1 William T. Wilson, liorn in Huntingdon Co.. Pa., Oct. 6, 1S24, was a 
non-commissioned officer in the Mexican War. He came to Upper Sandusky, 
C. in Dec. 1854. and became the editor of the Wyandot Pioneer. In April 
1S61 he enlisted for three months to fight Rebels, was elected captain of Co. 
C, of the 15th Ohio, and saw sei'vice in W. Va. He was appointed lieutenant- 
colonel of the Fifteenth. Aug. 6. 1861. and resigned Aug. 11th. 1SG2. On 
Sept. 2rith. 1S62. he was commissioned colonel of tlie 12:>d Oliio. About .3 
or 4 miles from Winchester, Va., early on the morning nf June 15th, 1S63. 
Colonel ^ViIson with many others was captured by the army of Gen. T.,ee 
(on it.s way to the battlefield of Gettysburg), and sent to l>ibl>y Prison, 
where he wa.s detained suffering untold miseiies, till paroled in Marc'.i l.S(;4. 
He was exchanged and returned home on sick-furlough in May. His rank 
as Brevet Brigadier-General dates from March 13, 1SG5. With liis regiment 
he was mustered out June 12, 18(55. He was Comptroller of llii> 'l'i-(>-i«\!ry of 
Ohio from 1871 to 1877. and mo\-od to (^oluml)us when elected Id that office. 
He and I ar« plinost the only men now ( 1 !l():l i li\'ing wiin were delegates to 
the first Republicp.n State Convi-ntion. lieid in ("ilnmbus. ().. Jnl,\- i:;, 1855. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

AIarion, Ohio, July 22d, 1863. 

Dear Princte: — Your kind letter of June 27th reached me 
yesterday, also a letter from James of the same date. I was as 
you may know very glad to hear from you both. * * ''' I 
presume you are*very happy in your nice new home, but you 
will probably enjcjy it only eighteen short months. O how rap- 
idly time passes, Ijut you don't perceive it as one of my age. 
•-!: * * You cannot guess how much interest I take in all that 
concerns you. Be contented and happy for we shall soon again 
eml)race on this side the water. 

I believe Annie has given you all the news except that yes- 
terday we received a letter from Lyman, written on ten pages of 
letter paper. He is now in Shelbyville, Tenn., which is a Union 
town, and our troops were received with demonstrations of joy. 
The county as well as the village, is full of LTnion i)eople, and 
American flags hid away since the rebellion began, were unfurled. 
1 received from James and read with pleasure the eloquent patri- 
otic letter of Air. Alotley the great historian and di]:)lomatist. 

Yours ever affectionately. 

P. S. — Mr. Thomas H. Hodder,^ who married our former 
neighbor Miss flattie Salter, was not nominated for the legis- 
lature. 

1 Mr. Hodder. the editor of the Marion Mirror, was born on the Island 
of Guernsey, March 31, 1834. He died in Columbus, O., July 28, 1876, He 
was a man of good intentions, and while living- in Columbus expressed 
regret at tlie course he pursued during- the civil war. He married Feb. 14, 
1861, Miss Martha L. Salter, a lovely girl, horn in Marion, Feb. 20. 1843. Her 
father Samuel Salter, was born in Baden. Nov. 29, 181S; died in Marion July 
11, 1898. A good citizen. He married Miss Lydia M. Madison, (of the great 
American family of that name) at Columbus. C. in May 1839. and she still 
(1903) enjoys good health although born Feb. 14, 1823. Frank R. Salter, 
their son, one of the successful business men of Marion, born Oct. 24. 1840, 
was married in Nov. 1865 to Miss Sarah A. Wilson, of M-arion. daughter of 
Hon. Richard Wilson, and sister of Capt. Byron Wilson, U. S. Navy. Capt. 
Byron Wilson, born in Marion Dec. 17. 1837. died in the service at Phila- 
delphia, Sept. 6. 1893,' and was buried in the Marion Cemetery. "At his 
death lie was No. 2 on the list of captains. Had he lived till 1898, would 
have been senior Rear Admiral of our Navy." He was a fine character, 
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J. LOTIIROP MOTLEY TO JAMES II. AXDERSOX. 

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STr.TES OF AMERICA. 

AT Vienna. June 2Tih. 1863. 
James H. Anderson, Esq , 

[Jnifcd States Coitsttl at Hamburg. 

Dear Sir: — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your kind invitation 
to participate in the celebration at Hamburg, of our national anniversary 
on the 4th of July next. I regret extremely to say however, that my 
Ijusiness here will not allow mc to quit my post at this time. Were it 
otherwise, nothing could give me more sincere pleasure than stich a 
meeting with so many of otu^ countrymen on this sacred day. 

The loyal portion of the American people — still constituting a large 
majority of the inhabitants of the land — have not renounced the right 
to commemorate the birthday of our republic. JVc at least, still recog- 
nize the great truths so solemnly declared nearly a century ago in the 
name and by the authority of "the good people" of the Colonies, .acting 
as they expressed it, as "one people." We still believe that all men are 
created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable 
rights — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We liave not sub- 
stituted for our old political evangel the new moral and philosophical truth 
that a commonwealth, in order to indure, should be founded, not upon 
human freedom, but upon human slavery. The American people never so 
truly deserved respect as now, when they are so generously lavishing 
their blood and their treasure to maintain that system of national liberty 
and those wise political institutions which their fathers bequeathed to them, 
and which an insurrection to extend and perpetuate African slavery has 
at last endangered. 

History has no record of any great people whose virtue and the 
strength of whose institutions have not been tried, at one period or 
another, by the fiery test of civil war. It is the destiny of all mankind. 
They who emerge purer and stronger from the furnace may have confi- 
dence in their future. They who are destroyed by it perish, because 
neither they nor their polity were found worth preserving. 

It is difficult to imagine that a majority of the American people will 
ever consent to the dismemberment of that country which nature has 
so strikingly marked out as the residence of one nation ; to the erection 
of a Chinese wall of custom houses and fortresses two or three thou- 
sand miles in length across the broadest part of our territory: to the 
perpetual maintenance of vast standing armies watching each other or 
contending with each other on each side the line: and to the permanent 
establishment of a system — already partly begun — of intrigues with 
foreign governments, by which one portion of what was so lalely a 
strong and powerful conuiionwealth, shall be played off against another 
portion until Americans, cheated of their liberties, their riglits .and then- 
nationality sh.all come to forget that they had ever possessed these bless- 
ings. 

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Weak or trcasonalile longings for a prematm-c and impossil)le peace 
will be powerless, I lielieve. to seduce the American people, from its 
plain path of duty — persistence in this most righteous war of self- 
defense, until the slaveholders" insurrection shall be entirely sup- 
pressed. 

Despite the efforts of treason at home and an organized calumny 
abroad, the American Republic, one and indivisible, is destined, I feel. 
sure, to survive its fiery trial, and future generations will be deeply grate- 
ful to our brothers now in arms who are offering up their lives in its 
defense. 

It is only by holding fast to the great principle of freedom for all 
men, by faith in the people, and by unlimited trust in Him who holds, 
all the peoples of the earth in His hand, that we can look forward stead- 
ily beneath the war-clouds which now envelope our land towards a 
brighter and happier future. 

I beg once more to express my thanks for your invitation, my regret 
at not being able to accept it, and my best wishes for an agreeable and_ 
successful commemoration of our national holiday. 
Pray believe me, very truly yours, 

J. LoTHROP Motley. 



MISS ANNIE !•:. ANDKRSON TO MI^S. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Aug-. 5th, 1863. 

Dear Princess : — I received yottr letter, not dated, yesterday.. 
As there were so- many Americans present, you must have had a 
pleasant time during the Great International Exhihition. I made 
the acquaintance of Air. Nast.^ of whom you speak, in this place 
years ago. He was then a little hoy whose home was Cincinnati, 
and was visiting Hattie Beerbower, who made a party on his 
account. Are the handsome young ladies you mention, visiting 
as your guests in Hamburg? 

Many soldiers pass through our place daily. The town fed 
one regiment on Saturda\', and another on Sunday. Many ^vere 
sick and several died between here and Gallon. They were Alas- 
sachusetts soldiers, drafted men, on their way home. It seems 
hard that thev should die just before reaching home. 

■ William P. Na.st, IT. S. Consul at Stuttgart, a briglit handsome young 
man, attended as a visitor the Great Exhibition at Hamburg. We became 
finite intimate and corresponded. His fatlier. A\'illiam Nast. D. D., a cele- 
brated author, si'holai-. and divine, was born at Stuttgart in 1807, and emi- 
grated to the I'nited States in 1S2S. 

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Oliver and Alattic' are visiting here now, and Mattie is as 
gay and sprightly as ever. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Anderson have 
a son. * * * Mr. and Mrs. John .\ult, hoth of whom are 
riow quite sick, were in Xcw York during the great riot. * * * 
Ellen Mary Harper, who is as ])opular as ever, is still here, hut 
returns home next week. You know I helieve that she lives in 
Indianapolis. In your next T wish you would descrihe the party 
(the last) you attended, and say what you and other ladies 
wore. * * * Your affec. sister, 

Annie. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES U. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Aug. 5, 1863. 

My dear Son : — A couple of days since, Annie received a 
letter from Princie which we all read with pleasure. We are 
very glad that she is able to entertain and go out. When she 
has a party she must not do too much herself. '"' * * Her 
disease was called here nervous lung consumption. 

Your hands were full during the Great International Exhibi- 
tion, hut that being now over, you and Princie should write us all 
about it. It was unfortunate that the gentleman who was presi- 
dent of the Exhibition died just as it was about to open, and 
when he was so much needed. And I regret it all the more as 
he was a friend of yours. - 

1 p. Oliver, and Martha M. Mclntyre Sharpless. Mrs. Sharpless was a 
scholar, an attractive, entertaining lady, and highly esteemed by her friends. 
She was born July 26, 1832, in Charlton, Mass., educated at Mt. Holyoke 
Seminary, graduating in the class of 1854, and came to Marion to live with 
her sister Mrs. Judge Bowen. the 'same year. She was a great sufferer for 
several years, but was treated with exceptional tenderness by her kind 
hearted devoted husband, to whom she was married in Marion June 24, 1S57. 
She died childless. May 13. 1898, and was buried in the beautiful Marion 
Cemetery. Mrs. S. was an aunt of Mrs. Flora Bowen True, wife of Mr. 
Harry True, the banker and philanthropist. Mr. P. O. Sharpless, born in 
Catawissa, Pa.. May 16, 1834. came to Marion with his parents in the month 
of October 1844; and now (1903), enjoys the respect of all who admire true 
worth and a higli standard of citizenship. 

- Baron Ernst von Merck. President of the Great International Agricul- 
tural Exhibition. My diplomatic and consulai- correspondence was with his 
brother, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, whom I addressed oflicially as 
follows: "His Magniricence Dr. C. H. Merclc. Syndicus for l-'oreign Affairs. _ 
&c.. &<-.. &c." He was an l.L. D., not an M. U. 

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Mr. John Aull, who has the consumption, has nearly finished 
his earthly career, hut he will receive the final summons as the 
good man meets his fate. I believe that he^ is prepared to enter 
into the mansions prepared for those that love God. His wife 
is also ill, but it is probably only the result of days and nights of 
watchful labor, anxiety and excitement. 

Levi Anderson caught a cold last Spring that settled on his 
lungs, and lung fever followed, which rapidly drifted into con- 
sumption, and I think he will hardly live longer than fall. 

I have thought of sending you a half barrel of eggs, 2 or 3 
l)arrels of choice winter apples, a firkin of lard, and a firkin of 
butter. In my next I will give you further particulars, and you 
can decide by the first of October, when you wish these articles 
shipped. I would not forward prior to November. If there is 
anything here you would like notify me, and the same shall be 
sent. Love to all. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. .ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 5, 1863. 

My dear Son : — Money is very abundant. It is almost im- 
possible to loan money at any rate of interest to any safe person 
— ■ it is so plentiful. I do not try to collect money from any man 
that I consider good. Do you want to sell your Deal Farm? 
Several men have been at me to buy it. I told them I did not 
know whether you would sell it or not. One man who wants it, 
will pay $800 or $1000 down. He- wants time on the balance at 
6 per cent, interest. I do not wish to advise one way or the 
ether. You must exercise your own judgment. Selling for cash 

' John Ault was a prominent drygoods and commission merchant for 
many years. He was cashier of the Bank of Marion, for years before his 
death. It was then the strongest bank in the place. Ault came to Marion 
with John Siebert in the spring of 1839; they came to Columbus one year 
before, from Tjebanon county, Pa. John Ault died in Marion Sept. 6, 1863. 

-John Siebert. born Apr. 19, 1801, in Lancaster county, died April 13, 1877, in 
Lebanon county. Pa., after living many years in Marion. Siebert's wife 
Sarah Miller, born July 13, 1802, died June 28, 1882, in Anneville. Pa. Their 

-only child Cyrus M., died .Avig. 24. 1862, in Marion. 

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is no o])jcct, for we could not loan it. You would want enough 
in liand to bind the Ijargain, and no more. 

Times will not always be as they are. We know they will not 
when this war ceases. But money must be plenty for some time 
to come in consequence of the enormous disbursements of the 
Government, and the number of National banks that are starting. 

Wm. L. Yanceyi the orator, and rebel leader is dead. John 
B. Floyd, another prominent rebel, is at the point of death. 

The rebel armies, it is said, have nearly reached the point of 
starvation. W'e now support many rebel families in Mississippi. 
Lee will not be able to get provisions for his army much longer. 
They are not to be had in his region, and we have him cut off 
from western sttpplies. As soon as Lee's army is used up, the 
rebels are done. 

W'e now control the Mississippi from its source to the (hilf, 
and steamboats are running regularly from Cincinnati and .St. 
Louis to New Orleans. 

\\'e have taken, as you already know, the guerrilla general, 
John Morgan, and his men.- We captured them in Ohio, and 
they are now in the Ohio penitentiary for safekeeping, that is 
Morgan and his leading officers, 30 in number, are at the ( ). P. 
it is mail time and I must stop. Your father. 

T. y. AXDERSOX. 



MRS. THOMAS J. AXDERSOX TO JAMES 11. AXDERSOX. 

Mariox, Ohio, Aug. i8. 1863. 

My dear Sox: — * * * I hope you are well, and that 
the Great Exhibition has been a source of pleasure, and a school 
of information. At your age how I should have enjoyed such 
n privilege, and even now I should take great interest in it. 

We are having I am sorry to say, quite a bitter, exciting- 
political contest. A very large Union mass-meeting was held at 

1 Yancey, the fire-eater, was born in 1S14. and died in 1863. Floyd 
was born in 1S07 and died in 1863. Both were leading Southern statesmen. 

- The officers of Morgan's command were immured in the cells of the 
Ohio Penitentiary. Morgan himself and six other prisoners made their 
escape on the night of Nov. 27, 1863. This caused a great outcry. The 
warden, Nathaniel Merion of Columbus, O.. was blamed to some extent, and 
was soon superseded. 

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Upper Sandusky last week. The procession that entered town 
trom the Marion road was three miles long", the one from the 
Bowsherville road took three quarters of an hour to pass a given 
point, and in fact the processions on every road that enters the 
town were very lengthy. Word of the great attendance flew over 
the wires. "The Copperheads of benighted Crawford" could not 
stand it : so about the time the Union folks were leaving for 
home a pack of disloyal rowdies from that county came to make 
a disturbance, wearing butternut badges, hurrahing for Vallan- 
digham, etc. Finally failing in their etTorts, they commenced 
throwing stones at the Union people, hit a man and broke his 
jaw, and threw stones into a wagon filled with young ladies, hit- 
ting and killing one. She was not instantly killed, but died the 
next day. It was not known then that she was seriously hurt 
(though it created quite a commotion at the time), otherwise a 
bloody scene would have followed. Our marshals, armed with 
swords and pistols, were very soon on the spot. Tom. Pierson 
was one. He could not tell who had thrown the deadly missiles., 
"but .dared another villain to lift a stone and he would lay him 
low. These ruffians now cooled oil and slunk away. 

John B. Williams, Marshall Godman. and other officers, are 
now at home. Both Mrs. Godman and Mrs. Williams concluded 
to celebrate the event by giving parties. We are among the in- 
vited guests. How much John has improved. It would as- 
tonish you. It takes these boys to talk to our "Secesh" sym- 
pathizers. They let them have it right and left. They tell them 
to their faces they would rather shoot them than the Rebels in 
the south, and they quail before them too. This you can hardly 
credit I know. I am afraid the boys will get into a fight before 
thev start back, but if they should, somebody will get hurt. 

Since our late victories, I notice the tone of the English press 
is very much modified. 

I have just been called to assist other loyal ladies in pre- 
paring eatables for soldiers who are returning home. We fed 
five or six regiments here during the past week. They were 
from Port Hudson, on the way to their homes in Maine, and 
?\Iassachusetts. Poor fellows ; they have had hard work to do, 
and look lironzed, but are intelligent, and the best behaved men 
m the world. We have furnished the soldiers, who seem to be 

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crazv for fruit, l)uslicls of a])])k's from our orchard. It rciiuirt's 
no small amount to feed a thousand at a time. lUit ihc i)t'o])1t 

are very Hljerah that is the Union peo])le. The seem lo 

be taking- a Httle interest of late, and hring a few baskets of food 
when soldiers are to lie fed. 

Aug. 19th. 1 am to have company for dinner: Mrs. Wil- 
liams and family, the (jodmans, the Bowens, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Fribley. It will be bird and squirrel potpie and vari(jus other 
tidbits. So you know just about what I am at. Interesting let- 
ter this, isn't it? We have plenty of ripe ajiples, more early ones 
than ever. 1 wish \-ou had some of them for they are delicious. 

Mr. Ault is still alive, but without any ho])e of ever getting 
well. Levi Anderson is hopelessly ill, far gone I may say with 
consumption, and cannot live beyond this fall. May God have 
you in His holy keeping. 

Your aiTectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Aug. It^ 1863. 

My dear Princess: — I am only going to write a little note 
to put in mother's letter. * * '■■' As many young offic-ers are 
now at home, parties and other entertainments are so common 
that we have some place to g-o every day or evening. Mrs. Col. 
Godman gave a party last Saturday, Mrs. Judge Williams yes- 
terday, and Mrs. Philip Phillips entertains to-day. I'arties will 
continue to be given for some time. "Rig Davis," as he is called, 
the dentist, was recently married to a very nice young lady from 
the east. 

If you have not vet sent the jewelry, I wish you would add 
a pin to match. I should like bracelets but 1 can wait awhile 
for them. You have not told me yet how your house is fur- 
nished. Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 

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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1863. 

My dear Son : — This is a fine pleasant morning-, Ijut here it 
:s too dry. I was at Upper Sandusky last week and visited Mr. 
R. N. Taylor's home farm called Sunnyside. Plenty of rain has 
fallen in the neighborhood of your farms, and Taylor's, to make 
corn and revive pastures. The hay crop was light. Very little 
was cut and cured on your farm in our county — the Deal Farm. 
The corn on that place will not amount to much. 

I attended a Union mass-meeting at Upper Sandusky. Col. 
Charles Anderson, our candidate for lieutenant governor, spoke. 
.A. brother of Gen. Robert Anderson of Fort .Sumter fame, he is 
a noble man, and a splendid speaker. As colonel of the 93d Ohio 
Infantry he was severely wounded. 

R. N. Taylor wants to trade his 250 acre Prairie Farm — a 
part of the FJavid Miller homestead — for a part of the 640 acre 
Rolling Plain h'arm, near Upper Sandusky. You must use _\-our 
best judgment. I offer no advice. He said he woLdd write you 
on the subject. The time is coming, v^'hen the Rolling Plain will 
be worth a good deal more per acre than any part of the Old 
Praire Farm. Taylor said he had spoken to Princess about the 
exchange, but she had given him no satisfaction. 

You never saw more political excitement than there is in (Jhio 
this vear. The Democrats you know nominated C. L. \'allan- 
digham for governor, and the Union party John Brough. Many 
believe that \'al. is as great a rebel as Jeff". Davis. 

We think we have got the rebellious portion of the south 
pretty well in hand. Kentucky has elected a Union governor, 
State legislature, and members of Congress by very large ma- 
jorities. The loyal people of North Carolina have called a State 
Convention, to secede from the Southern Confederacy, that they 
may once more live under the stars and stripes. 

Capt. T. J. Anderson, Jr., when last heard from was 16 miles 
from Vicksburg. Since the capitulation, he has followed the 
rebel Gen. J. E. Johnston, and aided in driving him from Jack- 
son, the capital of Mississippi. I am proud of my brave and 
patriotic namesake. We are looking for the surrender of 

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Charleston and Ah)l)ilc. iMghting- is going on at Charleston 
F"t. Sumter will sotjp, fall. ^'our father. 

T. J. Anderson. 



TIJOMAS J. ANDI':RS0N to JAMKS II. ANDKKSON. 

Marion, Ohio, .Sept. jd, 1863. 

Dear Son: — Our friends Rev. James (lilriith and Mrs. (ul- 
ruth.i now quite old, of Davenport, Iowa, are at our house as 
our guests, probably their last visit to Marion, which we have 
enjoyed very much. They leave us to-day for L'i)per Sandusky, 
and may attend the M. E. Conference which meets at thai place 
on the 9th inst. Your mother thinks of visiting in C .S. during 
the Conference. I fear howe\er she will give it up. If the 
weather be fair I shall try to have her go. 

We had a frost on the 30th and 31st ult. that seriously in- 
jured the corn on all our low prairie land. ( )ur up-land corn 
is not worth much, in consecjuence of the drouth. We are now 
having some rain which will help the farmer to get his ground 
ready for wheat. 

We expect soon to take Charleston. We have destroved Ft. 
Sumter, so that it cannot harm our Beet. It is now a mass of 
ruins. We have fired some guns into the cit\-, and I expect 
soon to hear of its destruction unless surrendered, (ien. (jil- 
more is a live man, and whatever he undertakes he usualh' per- 
forms. He is no milk-and-water man.- (ien. Rosecrans is 
moving on the rebels in East Tennessee. Bragg's rebel armv is 
])rettv well used up. All the hope the rebels now have is that 
France will intervene in their behalf; but our country was never 

' The cultured daughters of James and Mary Gilruth: Naomi, Matilda. 
Pauline, and Christiana, married professional men who rose to prominence; 
and the talented sons. James H. and Tliomas W.. honored tlieir professions. 

" Gen. Quincy A. Gilmore. born in T-orain county. C Feb. 26. 1825, was of 
Scotch-Irish and German extiactioii. His gi'andfather owned 1000 acres of 
land near Black River, where our hero was born. He graduated at West 
Point in 1849. He "was cliief of eni;inc('rs in the Port Royal e.xp(Hlition in 
1861, superintended the attack on Ft. I'ulaski. defeatrd the Confederates at 
Somerset in 1862. commanded at Ft. Sumter. Ft. Wagner, and Morris Island, 
and was promoted ma.ior-general for services at Cliarleston." lie made a. 
fine appearance, was six feet high, liad ciirlx- brown liair and beard, and 
a frank open fic;.', and was a higli anthn!-it\- on nritlcrs relating lo engi- 
neering. 

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in a better condition to sustain herself against rebels and others 
than at this time. * * * Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



REV. JAMES GILRUTH TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio,, August 31, 1863. 

Dear James: — After an absence of many years my wife and I find 
ourselves at the hospitable home of your respected father and mother. 
We were truly glad to find the family in good health. Our own is good 
with the exception of a lameness that has rendered me a cripple for the 
last five years. 

A Mr. Ralph of our vicinity — in Iowa — brought me your kind 
remembrance from Hamburg last year. It gave me much pleasure to 
hear from you, and it added nnich to that pleasure to learn your posi- 
tion in society, and in the public service. 

Now I am old, and it adds to my pleasure to entertain the hope that 
you are using the talents and opportunity which God has given you for 
the good of your country, and the glory of God. Uprightness before 
God, and integrity with man, are positions, than which none are sunerior. 
Any human exaltations without these are but fictions in life. With 
these there can be no degradation that possesses any lasting evil. 

Of the mad folly that pervades our Southern States, you are fully 
apprised; and you no doubt also know nf the worse than insane infatua- 
tion that has bewildered many in the north, to sympathize with the mad- 
ness of the South, and thereby minister to its aid and comfort. If 
however the crowned heads of Europe be not induced through wrong 
conception of things to interfere in our matters, I shall hope that both 
the rebellion and the cause that gave rise to it, will meet with the fate 
that reason and justice awards — a complete overthrow. 

We have been visiting in Ohio since the forepart of June: are on 
our return to Iowa. When you have leisure it would afford me much 
pleasure to receive a letter from you. My address is Davenport, Iowa. 

Dear James : Should you and I meet no more on earth, — shall we 
meet in the better country? God grant we may. 

Affectionately yours, 

James Gilruth. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES 11. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1863. 

My DEAR Princess: — It has been some time since T wrote 
to vou and longer since I heard from you. * * * i often 

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think of our long talks during the evenings of last winter, and 
wish you were here. Well, as for news. A large Union meet- 
nig was held here yesterday, and as a matter of course we had 
a great deal of company. A good many came from Bellefon- 
tain : Maggie Pollock, and her father-in-law, and sister ; Mrs. 
Baldwin, and several others ; Mr. D. S. Drake and family of 
our county were here, and Mr. and ^Irs. William Williams of 
Delaware county, and others. All sat down to dinner, and 
father was happy. We certainly had a house full, and plenty to 
do. Our friends think that 20,000 were jiresent at the meeting. 

The ladies of the Aid Society prepared a dinner and took in 
ahout $500.00. To-day the militia are drilling, and they will 
probably take in $50.00 more. Col. Gibson^ donated $25.00; 
so the Society will have a good sum, and thev need it too, for 
everything is very dear. Prices have more than douliled. 

Miss Em. Mouser was recently married to an M. E. preacher 
— a Mr. Burner — from Maryland. Our new preacher, about 
whom we know very little, is a Mr. l^alcs- from the northern 
part of our state. Mary McFadden graduated, and is now teach- 
ing in the Union School. • Mary Williams is also teaching. The 
P.ev. H. B. Fry" who is quite an invalid, is away traveling. 
'■■ * * I am now thinking of a new set of furs for this Win- 
ter, a new cloak, bonnet, etc. I should like to have you send 

1 Wm. H. Gibson was appointed Colonel of the 49th Ohio. Aug. 31, 1861. 
At the expiration of his term of ser^•ico Sept. 5, 1864. lie was mustered out. 
He was a brave, gallant officer, and held in high esteem l>y his comrades in 
arms. He had been Treasurer of Ohio, and was ousted from office by Gov. 
S. P. Chase for a defalcation of three quarters of a million. "His fault was 
not in taking the money, but in concealing the fact that it had been taken, 
before his entry into office, by his predecessor and relative, one Brcslin." As 
Col. Gibson was a manly man, and genei'ous to a fault, and the most enter- 
taining public speaker in the State, great sympathy was felt for him. Enter- 
ing the military service was a noble effort to wipe out his disgrace. This 
he succeeded in doing to a very great extent, for when he died a short 
time ago in Seneca county where he had lived nearly all his life, he enjoyed 
the love and respect of all the people. On March 13. 1865, he was made a 
brevet Brigadier-General. 

In a letter to me dated Nov. 18. 1902, Hon. W. P. Noble of Tiffin. O.. 
says: "Gen. William H. Gibson was born May 16, 1821, in Jefferson county, 
C, and died at Tiffin. Nov. 22. 1894. See Life and Speeches of General 
Gibson by Rev. D. D. Bigger." 

= Rev. L. J. Dales the M. E. Minister at Marion, 1863-64. 

3 Rev. H. B. Fry. D. D., chaplain, 82d O. V. I. Resigned his commis- 
•sion July 18, 1862. He was born near Sandusky city. O.. Oct. 22, 1832, and 
died at Ft. Wayne. Ind., June 16, 1902, where he resided as a professor in 
Taylor University. 

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me a few pairs of kid gloves ; one black pair embroidered with 
white, and one purple, like yours that I admired. I also want 
a few yards of linen edging, and enough lace and insertion 
for a few collars like yours. The collars we make are so much 
handsomer than those we buy. If you think of any other ar- 
ticles that I would like not too expensive include them in the 
package. Remember the amount of your outlay that 1 may re- 
pay you. 

Please do not delay, as it will be a long time liefore I will 
receive them. Be sure to send me samples of your new dresses. 
I now close as I must go at once to the Aid Society. My best 
love to James who is a brother indeed. Kiss Mary and baby 
for me. Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES li. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1863. 

Dear Son : — I was very glad to receive your letters of July 
25th and Aug. 8th. They came at the same time. I suppose 
you are very busy, but I should be glad to hear from you as often 
as once in two weeks. 

I am nmch pleased with the account that you and Princie 
both gave us of the Great International Exhibition. I wish I 
could have been there. With all my infirmities I should have 
enjoyed it. Now that the Exhibition is over I hope Princie will 
enjoy quiet for a time at least. Constant excitement is very 
wearing. I find it so in our distracted land. 

I think that Princie's dresses are very pretty. Goods are still 
very high here : have trebled in price. 

I am glad that Princie's brother is traveling with Gov. 
Wright. The tour will be of great advantage to the young man. 

I send you herewith a Gazette that shows up the party. 

If Gov. Wright should return to Hamburg, show it to him.' 
No administration on earth has shown more executive ability 

^ While the writer of this letter was visiting the family of her cousin- 
Major Daniel Yandes, at Indianapolis, she made the acciuaintance of Hon. 
Joseph A. Wrig-ht, who was then (18521) governor of Indiana. 

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than our own. To be sure the occasion has afforded the oppor- 
tunity. "\A'e had l)een long at peace, were unprepared for war, 
and were without experience. The I'resident and cal)inet have 
certainly shown ability, considering" the state of our aft'airs in 
the spring of i86i, and the results since achieved. Our army 
is the largest in the world, and our navy soon will be. 

I would not have you say anything in disparagement of Ex. 
Gov. Wright of Ind., for he is an old man, and has much influ- 
ence. But m}' friends and relatives in Indianapolis — the Yan- 
-deses, the Fletchers, and others — told me eleven years ago that 
he was a demagogue, and I do despise a demagogue, but I sup- 
posed that age had made him a different man.^ 

Mrs. is here on a visit. I don't kuow how in the 

world she could muster the courage to come. I should rather 
have gone a thousand miles in any other direction. 

The tried to get up quite a demonstration here last 

Fridav in honor of their exiled traitor chief, but I don't think it 
went off' to suit them. The Union ]iarty is going to have a great 
meeting on the 28th and I wish you could be here on that day. 

* :); * 

You say you are willing to work for fame, but do not care 
for monev. It seems to me that money is fully as useful, as fame 
is gratifving. You don't know how much I have wished to see 
you. * * - I believe * * *. You are young yet: per- 
severe : do all in vour pcnver : and trust the event to God. You, 
■Princie, and the little ones are on my mind almost continually. 

"O thnu eternal Ruler. 

Who boldest in Thine arm 
The tempests of the ocean, 

Protect them from all harm. 
Thy presence Lord, be will: them. 

Wherever they may be. 
Thonijh far from lis who love them,_ 

Still let tiicm he with Thee." 

Your affectionate mother. 



1 Gov. Josepli A. Wright of Ind.. wa.s a fluent, pleasing speaker, and 
generally very much in earnest. If in 1852 he was believed to be a dema- 
gogue, it was probably because lie was a very pious Methodist, and a vei-y 
intense Democrat at the same time. He was successful in holding office 
nearly all his life. 

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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

IMarion, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1863. 

Mv DEAR Son : — When I last wrote I had not heard that your 
h'ttlc son James T. had been hurt by a fall. I am anxious to 
know whether he is seriously injured. I hope and pray that you- 
may l)e able to raise your two precious children. 

( )ur Annual Conference has just closed its session at Upper 
Sandusky. Our new preacher is a Mr. L. J. Dales, who was sta- 
tioned last year at Perrysburg. He is a stranger to us all, and 
has not yet arrived. Rev. L. B. Gurley is our presiding elder. 

Andrew Sharj) was buried to-day. He died of softening of 
the brain, caused physicians say, by incessant smoking. We had 
a killing frost on the 30th and 31st ult. which destroyed much 
of the corn in the low lands. The Broad Gauge^ Rail Road is 
going on to completion. The grading is being finished, and ties 
are being delivered all along the track. Telegraph poles along 
the line are being put up also. 

We are having a very warm political campaign in Ohio this 
fall. The Democrats, so-called, are doing all in their power to 
elect C. L. Vallandigham governor, but we (the Union people) 
expect to elect John l^»rough governor. The state, and nation,, 
would both suiTer by the election of Vallandigham,- for LTnion 
people consider him an arch-rebel. The Rebels in all the states 
are said to be doing their best to elect him. 

Our armies are now successful in almost every instance. Ten- 
nessee is now under our control. We will soon occupy Charles- 

1 It has been changed to a standard gauge, and the name, formerly the 
Atlantic and Great Western, is now the N. Y. P. & O. 

- Hon. Clement I^. Vallandigham was a passionate opponent of the war 
for the Union. His fiery eloquent speech at Mt. Vernon, C, caused his 
arrest on May 4, 1S63, by a file of soldiers, at his home in Dayton, for high 
treason. He was faund guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned in a military 
post in Boston harbor. The President commuted this sentence to banishment 
within the linos of the Insurgent armies. He afterwards made his way to 
Canada, was nominated by the Democrats of Ohio for governor, and suffered 
an overwhelming defeat. He was handsome, gifted, sincer'e, an intense 
nature, a man of sli'ong convictions, and a magnetic orator. An honest 
man vviio loved his counti'v. he made the mistake of his life in opposing the 
prosecution of the war for the preservation of the Union. In any other 
country he would have suffered death. While trying a murder case, and 
making some tests, he was mortally wounded June 13, 1S71, by the accidental 
discharge of a pistol in his own hands, and died June 17th. 

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ton and Mobile. We have i^ossession of Morris Island, and can 
shell the city of Charleston, and this Gen. Gillmore on land, and 
Admiral Dahlgren on water, are probably now donig. The 
Southern Confederacy must and will fall. 

Drafting for the annv is now taking place in Ohio, to make 
good our quota of 12.500 men. It has not yet been ordered m 
our Congressional District. 

\ man must now have a good deal of money to support a 
familv for everything is very dear; but we trust in God for the 
future, and will' come out all right at last. L.we to Prmcess and 
the children. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, On 10, Sept. 20th, 1863. 
Dfvr Sox:-Yours and Princie's of the 21st and 22d ult. 
duly received. - ^ ^ I thank vou for your kmdness. 
* -* .: Your labors and responsibilities are greater than 
vou ought to bear, too great certainly for the reinunerat.on >^ 
deceive ■ but then we are all called upon to make sacrifices fo 
our countrv. and there is no one in whose breast a n.orc loval 
heart beats'than y..ur .>wn. nor one wh,. would n^ke more sacn- 
fices for his cuntrv. Yet at times when you feel youi every 
nLent occupied, and your strength taxed to its utmost and 
^our health impaired. 1 dout wonder that yon teel almost hke 

^''Tli give almost all the world to see you, but as I be- 
lieve vou can do more for your bleeding countrv m your presen 
p^Iiti^n than any one else, and as the time f,. ynu to i.,nan 
d.road is short, I would not now ask you to reaum How tune 
m s! Almost three years have we been en^vged m this cru. 
.var, and the er^^^^j^o^^et__Lyn^^ 

— T^.;;,Y,;7^^Win.. and THlotson were -t ^^^^r "1" ^sloS^ 
disastrous and bloody battle bet J^^en ^i;:;Z:^l^r^,^ battle of the 
Sept. 19-20. 18G3. and was tl o ght to b t ^^^^.^^_^ ^^_^^^^^ ^,^^ ^^^^ 

war, Gettysburg alone excepted. The -^^i ^^s ^^^^.^^^^ 

,Han .0.000 ,.en. that of the ^c^^--%:" toJ^;!!"?: and tTV, - U-tured 
loss was Ui.lT!). of whom IfiSO we,e '^'" ";'•■'' ,„_„^^ .,,.^9 w<'re killed. 

.V ^l«sin^. The Confederate losses we, e l^.SOl. of 



or missm 

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in the great battle of Chickamanga, in Tennessee. Whether 
they are among- the slain we have not learned. 

I want to feel that you are contented. '^ * * You are not situ- 
ated as some, yea many others, with want staring them in the face, 
and beset by numerous other ills. You have a good wife, who 
stands far above mediocrity, intellectually, socially, and in every 
other way, and two beautiful babes, whom I am sure none sur- 
pass, and everything else to make you happy except the giving 
of your heart to God. in which alone consists true and substan- 
tial ha])piness. My most ardent wish is that vou and your 
family may be ha])py here, and have a part in Christ's redemp- 
tion. 

Yesterday was a notable day in Marion. We had a great 
Union meeting that surpassed everything in enthusiasm, in num- 
bers, in respectability, in pageantry, ever witnessed in the State. 
So all the speakers said, and they were Hon. John Rrough, 
Col. Wm. H. Gibson, Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, Hon. John A. 
Bingham, and a Mr. Wolfe, a Cincmnati German. The grounds 
occupied were "Baker's Woods" — thirty acres. I cannot give 
you the number present, l)ut should think twenty thousand a low 
estimate. The multitude passed our house, and it was a vast 
sea of heads and faces. The sidewalks and streets were crowded, 
and the people on foot, on horseback, and in wdieeled vehicles, 
were two hours and a half in passing'. 

I should like to tell }'ou of the picturesque conveyances that 
carried the young ladies. The different townships of the county, 
and of the adjoining counties sent delegations which appeared 
to have striven to excel each other in numbers, and showv effect. 
With each delegation, came long wagons, simplv two or three 
coupled together, supplied with seats in tiers rising one above 
another occupied by young ladies, the third or top seat l)eing 
l>road enough for two rows of young ladies sitting back to 
back. Each triple conveyance was surmounted l)y a canvas 

13.412 were wounded, and 2003 captured or missing. In this battle, Rose- 
crans apparently losing his head, was badly defeated. The National His- 
tory of the U. S. says: "The record shows that Chickamauga was the most 
stubbornly contested battle of the Civil War. The percentage of losses was 
greater than those incurred by the British army in a hundred years, includ- 
ing ^''aterloo. and the Crimea." "But for the genius and valor of the Vir- 
gini-m who commanded tlie Federal left — Gen. Geoi'ge H. Thomas — the 
Union army would ha\'e )>een annihilated." 

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•canopy high over the heads of all. and was covered — the seats 
and sides as well — with paper muslin of red, white and hlue, 
elegantly festooned with sprigs of evergreen, l-'roni eighty to 
a hundred young ladies sat on each wagon, arrayed in spotless 
white, hut wearing rich and elahorate sashes and turbans of our 
national colors. The effect was very fine. Think of many such 
wagons, not all just alike of course, and hundreds of ladies and 
gentlemen in uniform on horseback, and a vast moving mass of 
pedestrians ! 

I had company and could not spend much time in looking at 
the moving throng. Mr. and Mrs. R. X. Taylor were here, and 
I was glad to see them, although I had nineteen other guests 
who sat down to dinner. 

Your affectionate mother. 

P. S. — I think M's effort at painting quite successful. Tell 
her to paint grandma something. Some day she will no doubt 
be (piite an artist. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANIM':RS0N. 

Marion. Ohio. Sept. 29. 1863. 

My dear Son : — Yesterdav was a l)ig da\' in Marion — for 
the Union. There were, it is said, from twenty to thirty thou- 
sand persons present. The speakers were Hon. John I trough, 
Hon. Samuel Shellaliarger, M. C. of Springfield. O., Hon. John 
A. Bingham, M. C. of Cadiz. O., Wm. H. (ubson of Tiffin, O., 
Col. 49th Ohio, and a Mr. ^^'olfe. a Cerman s])eaker from Cin- 
cinnati. W'e think it was a hard day on home rebels. 

Before you get this, our elections in ( )hio and Pennsylvania 
will be over. We expect to carry this state for the Cnion. by 
at least 50.000. without "the soldier vote." In this we may be 
mistaken but think not. 

( )n the Hjth. 20th and 2Tst of this mouth. ( len. i\osecrans 
had a hard figh.t at Chickamauga, near ("hattanooga, with (jen. 
Bragg. TItc rebel army it is said num])ered 80,000 men, and 
-cars only 55,000. The result is not satisfactory, but our soldiers 
^ire now safe at Chattanooga. The losses on both sides were 

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\ery heavy. Our loss in killed, wounded ami missin"-, was not 
less than 15,000, while the rehel loss was still greater. Gen. 
John Beatty who fought hravely, is safe. Gen. William H. 
Lytle^ of Cincinnati, was killed on the 20th. 

Brother John's son, Levi Anderson, is still very feehle. I 
])aid him a visit to-day, at his father's farm. Cousin Wm. Wil- 
liams, and wife, of Delaware county, who are now visiting us,, 
went along. 

To-day 1 agreed to loan Mr. C. R. Fowler- $1000 at 8 per 
ce-nt for one year. He will also keep the $2000 for another 
year, at the same rate. He bought the last summer, Mr. J. S. 
Rappe's 600 acre farm, at $31.00 per acre, and paid on it $10,000, 
by turning in his wool-clip at 90 cents per lb. 

1 Gen. Lytle. born in Cincinnati, Nov. 2, 1825, was descended from a 
long line of distinguished soldiers. He was appointed colonel of the Tenth- 
Ohio Infantry, and left Camp Harrison. June 24, ISGl. for active service in 
West Va., wliere he .served under Gen. Rosecrans. After the battle of Perry- 
ville, where Col. Lytle was wounded, he was promoted, and assigned to the 
command of the First Brigade, Sheridan's Division, Army of the Cximberland. 
After being wounded in the spine in the terribly bloody battle of Chicka- 
maiJga, he continued to charge the enemy with desperate valor "until pierced 
by three bullets lie fell at tlie head of his charging column." No braver 
soldier ever' died in battle. I made the acquaintance of William H. Lytle in 
18.53-4, when I was attending the Law Department of Cincinnati College. 
Although a young man, his standing at the bar was high. He was an able 
writer, and a poetic genius. His Antony and Cleopatra, and other poems, 
will long hold a prominent place in the literature of our country. He was 
an eloquent speaker. I heard him deliver a political speech in Marion a 
year or two before the war. and then accompanied him to Cincinnati. He 
was most companionable. 

"In figure Gen. Lytle was graceful and well developed. His head was^ 
viell-proportioned, and was covered with masses of long silken brown hair." 

- Mr. C. R. Fowler, one of the most prominent stock-farmers and flock- 
masters in Ohio, lives in an elegant brick mansion, on his large estate, about 
7 miles south of Upper Sandusky. Every pai't of his 3500 acre farm is rich 
land. Mr. Fowler is now wealthy, and as he is well advanced in years, born- 
Dec. 31, 1821, his industrious, intelligent, capable son Dwight, who is also- 
in good circumstances, relieves him of much care and responsibility by exer- 
cising a general supervision over their joint estates, flocks and herds. His 
father Dr. Stephen Fowler, l)orn Oct. 4, 1789, practiced medicine successfully 
till he died, Dec. 2<5, 1847, near Little Sandusky. Doctor Fowler left a large- 
estate. A genealogy of the Fowler family, entitled "Descendants of Capt. 
William Fowler," will be found in the old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, 
for October, 1902, by Daniel W. Fowler. It was furnished by C. A. Ridgway, 
of Columbus. O., a member of the Old Northwest Genealogical Society. 

In the American Heraldic Journal, a Quarterly Magazine. October 1902. 
will be found "A peaigree of the Fowler family of Milford, Conn., and 
Monroeton, Bradford Co.. Pa.." including the Fowler coat-of-arms, and 
crest, by the editor of tlie Journal. Mr. H. "W. Whayman, F. R. S. A. I., of 
Columbus. O. Since the al)ove was written Mr. C. R. Fowler died. His 
death took place at his residence Aug. b, 1903. 

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Your tenants on the River l-'arni, and on the Deal h'arm, are- 
behind. They are good, but comphun of faihire of croi)s the 
past two seasons. Your father, 

T. y. .Ani)i:kson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, ()., Oct. 1863. 

Dear Son -.—We have just heard from Lyman Spaulding 
and T. Eugene Tillotson. They were both in the terrible and 
disastrous liattle of the 19th, 20th anil 21st of September, called 
the battle of Chickamauga. Our men under Rosecrans, Thomas 
and others, fought almost the coml)ined forces of the enemy, 
under Bragg, Polk, and others. Thousands of our brave men 
fell, but Lyman and Eugene, although in the thickest of the 
fight, came out unharmed. In Lyman's regiment, 121 O. V. L, 
over 100 brave men were killed or wounded out of less than 
500 Avho went into battle. The men of this regiment, with 
great odds against them, fought like tigers,^ and finally on the 
night of the 2ist withdrew within the defences of Chattanooga. 
where they think they are safe. Who will fall in the next battle 
— for in my opinion another will soon be fought near the site 
of this one — is the serious question no one can answer. May 
the God of peace, be with you. and your dear family. 

Your father, 

T. T- Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H: ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1863. 

My dear Son :— In haste I write to inform you that my poor 

son Virgil- is no- more. He died this morning at 6 o'clock, 

after suffering from general debilitv and heart disease for two 

vears. He has been gradually failing for the last year, and 



1 The msTRe^ O V. I. in the battle of Chickamauga. "performed feats 
of bravery 'second to no other in the army, and won for itself an enduring. 



name." 

-'Dr. Virgil Dunlovy Anderson. 



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for four or five months has been so weak that he was scarcely 
able to do anything. In the meantime he has had but little pain. 
He never gave up till night before last when he complained 
more than us;ial, and at 8 o'clock his mother told him he had 
better go to bed, and by morning he would probably be better. 
He went to bed, and bolted his door as usual. 

Yesterday morning he didn't get up to breakfast, l)ut that 
was not uncommon. At noon we called him. He simply said 
"Yes." but didn't come down. At 4 o'clock I went to his door 
and knocked, wishing him to let me in. He answered saying 
he was too weak to get up and open the door. I insisted, and 
he got up and unbolted the door. I begged him to put on his 
clothes, and come out of his bed-room, and breathe some fresh 
air, and told him he would feel better. P.ut he was too weak, 
and laid down again for the last time. So I watched his symp- 
toms, and at 6 o'clock last evening called in Doctor Davis who 
lives just across the street. 

He came, and found that Mrgil was not long for this world, 
his system was so debilitated, and pulse so weak. He was then 
so tliat he could talk but little. His mother took some supper 
mto his room, Init he ate nothing. He drank half a cup of tea. 
said it was good, but could take no more. He reallv had no 
streiigth of body. So he lav through the night apparentlv suf- 
fering but little : slept all the time, only when we roused him 
up. He could take no medicine. The doctor gave him some 
stimulants such as diluted l)randy. He was cold from the start, 
tliat is his extremities. Nor could we converse with him, for 
he was unable to talk. At about six this morning, he groaned 
a good deal for a few minutes, the doctor came in. but all was 
over in five minutes after his arrival. He died an easy death 
without relaxing a muscle of his face. 

The funeral services will probal)lv take ])lace tomorrow after- 
noon at our house. He will be laid by the side of your brothers 
and sisters — five in all — where they repose, in "the Old Bury- 
mg dround." I have but two children left. ( )ur little Cora is 
with us, and the dear child takes X'irgil's death very hard. He 
was always kind to Cora. In fact he was naturally kind and 
tender-hearted. We shall miss him verv much, ^^'e will all 
soon be gone! May we be prepared to meet in that lietter land, 

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where we shall have no more sorrow or sufferin<^. I am lr\ing 
to hve daily witlT reference to that great event. 

Virgil was always very anxions on the arrival of everv Ham- 
bnrg mail to hear from you. * '•' '•' He lies in the front par- 
lor, in the same place that your dear brt)ther Clay lay, for the 
last time. — ■ looking as if he were asleep. 1 send this to you by 
way of England, so that you will get it at least eight days sooner 
than yon would l)y the Hamburg steamer, as that does not leave 
New York till the 17th inst. () who can tell what a.. da\- may 
bring forth ! (_) the value of time! I have written in great haste. 
Excuse any imperfections, for A'irgil is continually on my mind, 
and T cannot say perhaps, what I ought to say. 

Accejit my love, your mother's and Annie's, and pray for us 
that God may guide and sustain us under all His dispensations. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, (Jet. 12, 1863. 

My DEAR Son : — With a heavy heart I attempt to write. One 
week ago, our family was as Princie last saw it in May. One is 
now missing, — never more to return to the family circle. In 
the cold damp ground, till the resurrection morn his body shall 
lie. My thoughts are such as make the tears unbidden start. 
Thev are of and with the one thus early called away. I bow in 
submission to the divine will, for God is too good to be unkind 
and too wise to err. That Virgil had faults we know. Who is 
without them? But that he had good properties none know so 
well as his family. He had been failing for a year. Strangers 
noticed it. Last winter when Princess was here she observed 
it, but I was in hopes he w^ould get better, and said but little on 
the subject. * * * 

The poor bov I regret to say, never enjoyed life, but T have 
the satisfaction of knowing that I always did everything in my 
power for his comfort and happiness. Now that he is gone, if 
I onlv had an assurance that his immortal spirit is at rest, I 
should l)e hai)pier far, but here T am in the dark : I am not per- 

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mitted to look beyond the grave. This I know, that no injustice 
will be done him, for he is in the hands of a merciful God. 

The day after the burial, I received yours of the 12th of Sep- 
tember. How sad the intelligence that Princie's lungs are so 
affected as to make it necessary for her to spend the winter in 
Southern Europe. As she can't be with me, I regret that she 
must be separated from you. I am glad she is thinking of going 
to the borders of Italy * * * You say she may possibly de- 
cide on going to the lake of Geneva. That point may be too 
high, and the atmosphere too rare for a person aft'ected as she is. 

Dear Princie : Cast your care on (iod, trust Him as your 
Great Physician, and you may be restored to health.^ But if 
God orders otherwise, and we never meet again on earth, may we 
meet where parting shall be no more. Dear Princie, if you have 
any commands for me, reduce them to writing while you are able. 
Write freely and fully, and say just what yc^u wish me to do 
in case you never return. Then seal up what you have written, 
and address it to me, but retain it in your possession. If I live 
longer than you, I shall carry out your wishes to the best of my 
poor ability. Write and tell me just how you are. The subject 
has made me sad. Mrs. Judge Bartram and Mrs. Hattie Fribley 
were just here, and kindly inquired about you. 

Dear Son: I just received a long, interesting letter from 
Lyman. In the battle of Chickamauga, he was in the thickest 
of the fight, but came out safe. His company, and his regiment 
:stood up like a wall of fire, against treble their number. Their 
praise is in every mouth. I understand that Lyman was seen 
during the whole battle at the head of his company, his face to 
the enemy. _ I presume no man of his strength makes a better 
soldier. He knows no fear. He writes that he is in good health 
and spirits. If it were not that there are so many meritorious 
soldiers, I should now look for Lyman's promotion. Love to all. 

Your affectionate mother. 

' She is now — 1003 — comparatively healthy. 



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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO jAMKS II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1863. 

My dear Son : — On the 8th T sent you a leltrr l)y vva}' of 
England about Virgil's death. * * * I can but ask Ood's 
supporting- grace in my declining days. * * '■■ I sent your 
lines to the editor of the New York Evening Post. 1 am attend- 
ing to your matters (o the best of my ability. (lOod health pre- 
vails in town, and the weather is very fine. We have had rain 
sufficient to bring forward fall pastures. 

Our October election went off yesterday in great cpiietness. 
Our township gave a Union majority of 90. The majority of 
our opponents in the county was only i^(\ notwitbstanding the 
absence of so many Repul;)licans in the field ; but now ///: y hare 
a z'otc, which will no doubt give us the county. Last \ear our 
political enemies carried the county b)- 400 majoritw We are 
now hearing by telegraph that John Brough, our candidate for 
governor, is largely ahead in the State without "the soldier vote," 
and that the whole Union ticket is elected. You know that this 
State has some eighty or ninety thousand soldiers in the army. 
Yallandigham is a badly used up man. Brough^ has carried 
the State by at least fifty thousand majority without the votes of 
our soldiers ; with them by 100,000. The whole of our State 
ticket has probably received nearly as large a vote. Pennsylvania 
has given Gov. Curtin a large majority. 

We are sorrowftd and lonely since A'irgil's death, l)ut we try 
to submit with Christian fortitude. God alone can give support 
m time of severe aflhction. Your father, 

T. J. /Vnderson. 

1 John Brough, taorn in Marietta, C, Sept. 17, ISll. was elected gover- 
nor of Ohio, over Clement E. Vallandigham. by a majority of 101,099. As a 
public speaker he was pleasing and convincing, and spoke with the greatest 
apparent ease. His candor and clearness of statement impressed all who 
heard him. He was also a strong and forcible writer, and a man of untiring 
industry, and absolute integrity. But he made so many enemies during the 
war in trying to protect the rank and file from imposition, that the poli- 
ticians turned him down in two years, in favor of Gen. Jacob D. Cox, who in 
turn became equally unpopular. Gov. Brough died at Cleveland, Aug. 29, 
1865. President Lincoln greatly admired Brough, and had decided to appoint 
him Secretary of War, to succeed Edwin M. Stanton, who wished to resign, 
and desired the governor to fill his jjlace. 

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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, ( )ct. zy , 1863. 

Mv DEAR Son ; — -Three weeks ago tomorrow morning your 
dear brotlier was taken from us, as I have heretofore informed 
you. He is hardly ever out of my minck We all feel very 
ionely, for he was all the time with us. And I sometimes forget, 
and think he is in the house. But he has left us forever, and 
his immortal spirit is far away. You can hardly imagine how 
we feel, seeing our dear children one by one taken away, and 
we, in our old age, left almost alone. Were it not for your only 
sisteri and dear little Cora,- we should be quite alone and 
desolate indeed. But we must submit to the Divine will, which 
J am daily trying to do. I daily at the throne of grace, remem- 
ber you, and dear Princess, and your two dear children. That 
you may all be blessed of God with grace to serve Him, and 
with health to discharge your duties, and finally to return to 
}onr countr\- and friends, is the praver of 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Tuesday, Xov. 10, 1863. 

AIv DEAR Son :'- — T have sent you a barrel of applet which 
will reach you by the same steamer that carries this letter. You 
will find a variety. ( )ur friend Orren Patten, the banker, pre- 
sented you a bushel, and our old friend Joseph Morris,'^ the 

1 My sister Annie died April 26, 1872. leaving me the only survivor of 
(>i.i;ht cliildren. 

- Cora Spauldins. daughter of my sister Orrel, died July 30. 1877. 
When Cora died 1 had neither father no;- mother, brother nor .sister, nephew 
or niece. I was the last of the family, except my children. 

2 .loseph Morris, a Friend or Quaker, was born in New Jersey. June 
23. 1804. and removed with his family to a firm in Richland township. 
Marion county, O., in 1837. He was an intelligent, industrious man. whose life 
was spent in doing good. Though far from rich, he spent time and money in 
deeds of charity before* and during our Civil War, and for ten years thereafter. 
He traveled through the South, and afterwards among our Indian tribes, dis- 
tributing tracts, books, food, clothing, and all the money he could obtain or 
spare. He wrote a book entitled, "Reminiscences of Joseph Morris, being 

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Quaker, another. The rest I selected from our own orchard. 
There are lo or 12 different sorts and all are good. We wrapped 
each apple in paper, and all were in i^ood condition. We took 
all necessary pains in preparing them for shipment. I paid the 
express charges from here to New York, $4.50, and guaranteed 
the payment of the freight from X. ^'. to Hamhurg. .\s soon 
as they arrive, unpack and assort without delay. I know they 
will cost more than they are worth, the transportation is so ex- 
pensive, hut I thought it would he gratifying to get some apples 
from home, from our own trees which }ou helped me to plant. 
Your Hamhurg friends wuU now^ be able to judge of the flavor 
and merits of Ohio apples, the first no doubt to reach that city. 
The barrel — a large one — was made to order by American- 
dollar, (a true Union man,) and contains just 508 apples. 

I have advertised your farms for rent, and have already sev- 
eral applicants. I understand the old tenants wish to renew 

a brief history of tlie life and labors of charity of the author." It was 
published by The Friends' Publishing House, in Columbus, C. in IScSl, and 
in it some of his best friends are mentioned: John Beatty. David Tod. .Tames 
H. Godman. Jacob D. Cox, U. S. CJrant, Thomas J. Anderson, M. I. Hubbard, 
Levi Coffin, and others, and letters from some of Uiem appear. He was 
often a guest at my lather's house, and wrote me sever;!l letters while I was 
in Germany. Joseph Morris, the upright man and philanthropist, died in 
Richland township, where he had lived for morc^ tlrin shxty years. Sept. 6. 
1S9S, at the home of his good and highly esteemed daughter Mrs. Rachel 
Nickels. 

Joseph Morris, the humanitarian, was an anti-slavery man, and aboli- 
tionist, and his dwelling house, (where I spent several days in 1S54). was 
a prominent station on the Underground Railroad. His unpretentious 2- 
story frame house, was supplied with a basement and attic, that in ante 
helium days furnished a secure temporary retreat for many runaway slaves 
on their road to Canada. The basement and attic connecting with each other, 
were it is said, ingeniously subdivided into small compartments, the doors 
and partitions so cunningly devised and fashioned that strangers failed to 
detect the plot and contrivances that shielded the cowering fugitives. And 
there were it is said, underground passages or tunnels leading from the base- 
ment (one) to the corncrib. and (one) to the barn, to facilitate escape. No 
slave hunter ever discovered a slave that had gained access to the Morris 
place of refuge. Verily Joseph was as wise as a serpent, and as harmless, 
except to slaveholders, as a dove. 

In "Reminiscences of Joseph Morris," p. 11, is the following: "9th mo. 
21st. [1854]. Thomas J. Anderson from Marion, our county town, with his 
family, arrived at our house. He left his home on account of cholera 
being in that town. Many of their neighbors have died suddenly, after a 
few hours illness. Great numbers are leaving their homes. * * * and 
staying with their friends in the country. 

"9th mo. 28th. Cholera in Marion prevails to an alarming extent. When 
It will subside our Lord only knows. May it be our happy situation to 
live so near the Fountain of Life that we may with cheerfulness comply 
with the demand, let it come when it may." 

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their leases, which they may do on complying" with my terms. I 

must have a higher rental, and better security. Mr. W- , is 

far in arrear, and Mr. M , has paid nothing on his old debt. 

We have just gained a victory under Gen. Meade, driven the 
Rebels from the Rappahannock, ^ taken 1800 prisoners, and several 
guns and battle dags. 

While I think of it I would say that Miss Alice Julia Johnson 
was married last Thursday to an eastern gentleman named Os- 
born,- whose ])resent place of residence is Terre Haute. He is 
a musician, and dealer m pianos, organs, etc., and a friend of 
Mr. Philip Phillips of this place. Annie attended the wedding. 
As soon as married they went away on their wedding journey. 
I am informed by Alice's father, that her mother has been all 
the time mourning and crying since the marriage. Osborn is 
well spoken of. Annie sends herewith his likeness to Princess. 

Ex-Sheriff David Epler, has moved to Shelbyville, 111, where 
he is keeping a tavern. Here he failed, losing all his property, 
including his large farm on the Big Scioto, near Holderman's 
Mill. Timothy Fahey, the owner of the Richard Patten lot on 
Main St., opposite the Old Cy. Mann tavern, has erected thereon 
a fine three story brick business house. Tim. is prospering. 
Frank Campbell gave $5500 for "the Old Cap. Hardy Corner," 
and expects to build on it in the spring.^ Oliver Sharpless has 
bought of Harvey Peters his drug store and building on Main 
street. "Old Cap. Hardy" has bought the Durfee corner, (Dur- 
fee's Exchange Bank building). Hardy is "on his legs again." 
He is now in good shape, well off, or rich ; but still lives in his 
old * * * way. 

Dr. Carpenter and wife of Warsaw, Ind., left here yesterday. 



1 Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, Va. This battle took place 
Nov. 7, 1863, during- Meade's and Lee's operations in Northern Va. 

~ Samuel Clinton Osborn, born March 31, 1835, and said to be a lineal 
descendant of Geoffrey Osborn, Duke of Leeds, of England. Alice J. Johnson, 
born in Marion. C, Nov. 5, 1844, was the daughter of Obadiah J. Johnson, 
and his wife Rebecca Ann Mills. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, are 
Clinton Mayo, born In Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1871, and Clifton Carlisle, 
born in Marion, U., June 28, 1876. Alice was celebrated as a vocalist of 
rare powers, before and after marriage, not only in Ohio, but in Mass., and 
other eastern states. Mr. and Mrs. O. were intelligent and very prepossessing. 

3 Timothy Fahey and Francis Campbell, emigrated as young men from 
Ireland, settled in Marion county, were frugal and industrious, and became 
wealthy. 

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He is a captain in the 7th Ind. Cavalry- Give my love to Prin- 
cess and the children. Yonr father, 

T. J. Andkrson. 

P. S. — Young Mr. Culbertson of Upper Sandusky, whose 
father rents your house, was killed by a train of cars a few 
days ago. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. loth, 1863. 

Dear Princte: — Your favor of the 2d ult. was received. 
* * :i^ You need the fresh air to invigorate you, hence I 
should not "house" myself up. And 1 beg you on no account to 
become discouraged. God will do all things well. Our lives 
are in His hands. It is natural for one circumstanced as you 
are to be gloomy, Ijut don't allow this feeling to predominate: 
the mind has so nuich to with the health. 

I have not seen a well moment since Virgil^ died, and am 
very ill to-day. Indeed I am scarcely able to sit up, yet I try 
to count my atTlictions as dross, as dust in the balance. If we 
count and test our blessings, we will find that they outnumber 
and outweigh our trials. 

When I turn my eves to my poor bleeding country, I find 
cause enough for thankfulness that my own individual trials are 
no greater, for besides perils in the field, and pestilence in camp, 
many of our brave defenders are now starving in loathsome rebel 
prisons. Charley McCabe,- after five months' imprisonment in 

1 Virgil Dunlevy Anderson was a Latin and Greek scliolar. studied 
-medicine, practiced several years, and altliough uncommonly bright, was 
not very' successful. The dull routine of daily practice bored him. He was 
born in Marion, April 11, 1829, and died Oct. 7, 1863. 

2 Bishop Charles C. McCabe, D. D., born in Athens, Ohio, Oct. 11, 
1836 educated at the O. W. University; chaplain 126th Ohio; captured at 
Winchester Va., and sent to Libby Prison. A popular eloquent preacher, 
and a citizen of influence. He was a brother of the celebrated scholar. Prof. 
L. D. McCabe, LL. D., deceased. Charley McCabe, or "Chaplain Mac," as 
he was called, was idolized by his comrades in distress, at Libby Prison, 
where he sang "songs in the night season." and cheered many a "forlorn 
and war-wrecked brother" by his melodious voice and sunny disposition. 
He is now a leading clergyman, and bishop of the M. E. Church of the 
United States. 

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Richmond, has just got home. He was one of our chaplains,, 
and the Rebels took and detained him after an express agree- 
ment had been entered into that neither' we nor they should take 
chaplains, or surgeons, knowing them to be such. He says the 
sufferings of our soldiers in the hands of the Rebels, are almost 
past endurance ; and that when our men expostulate, and tell 
them that their men in our hands are well fed, their reply is : 
"Well, we haven't the food for our own men either: they are 
suffering too." I think if our government should put the 5000 
rebel prisoners at Camp Chase on an allowance of one ration 
per day, and notif}' the rebel authorities at Richmond, it would 
have a good effect. 

We sent the apples several days ago. We trust they will 
reach you in good condition. Say to Mary and James T. that 
grandma put the little red ones in for them. The package sent 
to Mr. Gillett^ of N. Y. for me has not yet arrived. Love 
to all. Your affectionate mother. 



mr.s. thomas j. anderson to james ii. anderson. 
Marion, Ohio, Nov. 23, 1863. 

Dear Son : — Your good kind letters on the death of Virgil 
were received last Friday. While Annie was reading one of 
them, and we were all in tears, Mrs. Fribley came in, and was 
quite alarmed, thinking I wa*^ worse, until your father explained 
the cause of our emotion. Though they stirred our feelings, yet 
we felt how sweet was your sympathy. I can't write much in 
bed, and am already tired. 

1 Mr. Morillo H. Gillett was born in 1S21 in the state of New York, 
came to Marseilles, then in Marion, now in Wyandot Co.. O., in 1S43, and 
died in N. Y. City, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1SS9. He began life poor, but became 
rich shipping fat live stock and fresh dressed meats to New York, and 
England, and by other successful ventures. He lived for several years in 
Upper Sandusky, C. where he enjoyed the respect of the people, for his 
word was as good as his bond. It is said that one of his sons married a 
daughter of a brother of the late Commodore Vanderbilt. While en route to 
my post of duty in Hamburg, in April 1861, Mr. Gillett, who was then 
domiciled in the city of New York, treated my family and me, during the- 
week that we spent in N. Y. with great hospitality, courtesy and kindness: 
I received several letters from Mr. G. during my residence abroad. 

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About nine days ago I was seized with a fever, that was pre- 
ceded by a chill, and became very sick. The fever however was 
50on arrested or rather it lodged in my limbs and ankles, which 
are now so sensitive that the\- will not bear any weight what- 
ever, and so I must lie abed, of which I am becoming very weary. 

I appreciate your kind offer to send for and educate Cora, 
during your stay in Europe, but I cannot think of sending her 
away ; I cannot part with her. She is now taking music lessons, 
and her father appears very anxious about her education. I 
should like to send you his last letter from the army, but it is 
on 12 pages of heavy fool's cap. I can write no more. 

Your atifectionate mother. 



thomas j. anderson to james h. anderson. 

Marion, Ohio, Nov. 1863. 
AIv dear Son: — Your favor acknowledging the receipt of 
niv letter of the 7th ult. giving an account of Virgil's death 
came duly to hand. I do not know that I can give you any fuller 
account. * '■■ * We miss him very much. He used to be a 
close observer of passing events. l)Ut latterly he paid but little 
attention to anything of a political or public character. To 
friends visiting at our house, he was polite, and took pains to 
show them attention. Only one week before his death William 
Williams and wife of Delaware county, and Mr. R. N. Taylor 
and wife of Wyandot county, were here, and he was particularly 
kind and attentive to them. 

Your cousin Levi Anderson, is still alive, but the physicians 
say they can do no more for him. He cannot stand it much 
longer. You know he has consumption. I paid Mr. Geo. Craw- 
ford for the Marion Independent. Do you get it? I also or- 
dered Harper's Magazine sent you. Annie has not yet received 
the package sent her through kr. M. H. Gillctt of New York 

citv. 

You know the President has made a call for 300,000 more 
soldiers. Our people are trying to raise our quota without a 
draft, as we think it more honorable to go voluntarily than by 
force. So all of us have taken hold of the matter in earnest. 

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At a citizen's meeting- it was resolved to raise money suffi- 
cient to pay each volunteer $50.00 in addition to what the gov- 
ernment pays. So I have put down for you and in your name 
$ , and I am sure you will be glad of it. We have 33 sol- 
diers' wives and widows to provide for. They are very poor. 
The necessaries of life, victuals, clothing, fuel, etc., are very 
high. We have determined not to let the wives, widows nor 
children of soldiers sufifer. The citizens of this place are taking 
hold of the matter, and attending to their wants, and I put down 

for you and in your name $ for that purpose. This I know 

will please you. Heretofore I have paid everything of the kind 
out of my own money. 

Our little Cora is much like her mother (your sister Orrel,) 
and your brother Clay,^ of precious memory. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 8. 1863. 

My Dear: — I have not yet regained my health, though I sit 
up more than half the time. When able to walk about and take 
more exercise, I think I shall recover my strength. You refer to 
Annie's mourning dresses. She wore black at the funeral, but 
so many deaths are now occurring at home and in the army, 
that black apparel is not so generally worn as formerly. It is 
not pleasant to wear somber black for long periods, and besides 
it is far costlier than before the war. * * * 

I send you a sample of Amanda's hair. She says she wants 
"a pretty long, thick twist," but I hardly know how you are 
to send it. 

^ Clay W. Anderson, born August 24, 1837, was educated in the schools 
of Marlon, and at the time of his death, February 28, 1857, he was teller 
in Durfee's Exchange Bank. He was a model young man in every respect: 
studious, diligent, exact, scholarly, and refined. He was held in high 
esteem by all his ac<|uaintances, and his near relatives thought he had no 
Cd.ual. 

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Long before this reaches you. you will have heard of Grant's 
victory at Chattanoooa, over I'.ragg.i Well, we lost heavily in 
killed, wounded and missing, but obtained advantages the value 
of which can hardly l)e overestimated. Lyman was there under 
Granger in the thick of the fight. Eugene under Wood, and 
Tommy Anderson under Sherman. We have not heard a word 

directly from any of them. * * * Tell M , grandma 

thinks of her every day, and wants to see her. I am very tired, 
and can write no more. Your affectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MR. AND MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Dec. 8th. 1863. 

Dear Brother and Sister: — Your letters of Oct. 31st were 
duly received, and eagerly read. I thank you very nuich for the 
gloves, lace, and bracelets. They are beautiful, and suit me to 
a nicety. The gloves fit me perfectly. The bracelets are very 
handsome. I also received last week the dress, and jewelry. 
The gown is pretty : so dift"erent from any here. Tt just suits me. 

No, I do not dress in mourning. It is seldom worn now ; 
there are so manv deaths. But few put it <in even vvhen the 
nearest and dearest relatives die. There is probablv another rea- 
son for not donning mourning : it is very expensive now. Dress 
goods, especiallv imported, are very dear. Mother however wears 
it, and I presume wdll continue to. 

I was just telling mother, I should like to send you all Christ- 
mas presents, but how to do so is the question ! Besides, wdiat 
have we here that wf mid jilease you ? 



' Tlie battle of Chattanooga was fought Nov. 23-25. 1863. Grant placed 
Sherman on liis left. Thomas in tlie centre, and Hooker on his right. The 
Confederate Gen. Bragg had about 40,000 men in a position on lofty moun- 
tain heights, regarded b.v many as impregnatile. Grant says his army num- 
bered about flO.OOO men. that he lost 7.52 killed. 1,713 wounded, and 3.'')0 miss- 
ing, that he took ovci- 6.100 prisoners, 40 i)ieces of artillei-y, over 7,000 stands 
of smfll arms, and many caissons, artillery wagons, and Ijaggage wa.gons. 
A panic seemed to seize the enemy, oflicers and men. wlio fled in wild dis- 
order. It was a great Union victoi-y. Tlie battle of (Hiattanooga. or Mis- 
sionary Ridge, includes Orchard Knob, November 23d (loss about 200), and 
I.<cokout Mountain, November l!4th, '"Hooker's battle abcve th- clond^" (less 
about 500). Bragg, ashamed of the action of his troops made ci.iy a brief 
report, omitting many details as to his strtngtli, losses, etc. 

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Dinner is now ready, and I wish you were all here to take 
seats at the table. Bill of fare: roast beef, potatoes, hot corn 
bread, mince pie, cider, etc. A simple meal but good, and I only 
await the coming of father and Cora. I suppose by this time you 
have the apples we sent you. 

Cora has just come from school, and requests me to say to 

M , that she has a pretty new pink and white hood, that the 

school girls think it lovely, that she will soon have a new set of 
fine furs, which have already been ordered from the city, and 
that she has a new black hat trimmed with white and black velvet 
ribbons, and white and black plumes. Her father will probably 
get her a new cloak also. Your letter in the New York Daily 
Tribune of the 3d inst. I read last evening and it pleased me very 
much. Mother thinks it a very good letter. 

Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



JAMES H. ANDERSON TO THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. 
From the New York Daily Tribune of December 3, 1863. 
TIIF. INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CONGRESS AT BERLIN. 
ADDRESS OF HON. S. B. RUGGLES, AT HAMBURG. 

Correspondence of the New York Tribune. 

Hamburg, Germany, October 10, 1863. 

The Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles,^ United States Commissioner to the 
Inlcrnational Statistical Congress at Berlin, passed through this city 
on the 5th ult., on his way to his post of duty. 

On the 11th ult., Mr. Ruggles on behalf of the United States, duly 
reported to the Congress "the rate and extent of the material progress 
of the human race in that portion of the new world committed by Prov- 
idence to the care of the American Union," etc. 

I. He showed the progressive increase in the vast territorial area 
of the United States. 

' Dr. Charles H. Wetmore, a graduate of Yale College, emigrated 
from New York city in the year 1819 to Worthingtcn, Ohio, near which 
place he and his wife's father owned large bodies of land. He died at the 
family homestead Octol^er 10, 18(iS, in his Snth year. His chilJr'an were 
first cousins of Mr. Ruggles. 

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II. The present population of tlic country: its increase since the 
■establishment of the Government, and the rate of in-osress. especially 
since 182-2. He added: 

III. "The natural and inevitable result of this great incre;iso of 
population, enjoying an ample supply of fertile land, is seen in a cor- 
responding advance in the material wealth of the people of the United 
States." He gave the progress of the assessed value of the jjroperty, 
real and personal, of the country, from 1791 to 18G0, showing the aug- 
mentation of value to be the almost fabulous amount of $16,000,000,000. 

Under the third division of the report he described the extent of 
the canals and railways in the United States, and their wonder-working 
power to practically abolish the distance between the seaboard and the 
widespread and fertile regions of the interior, thereby removing the clng 
on their agricultural industry, and virtually placing them side by side 
with the communities on the Atlantic. He eloquently alluded to the 
swelling stream of emigration, flowing into the "food-producing States, 
an immense natural garden in a salubrious and desirable portion of the 
Temperate zone:" to the effects of this influx of population in increasing 
the pecuniary wealth as well as the agricultural products of the States 
in question : and to their vast and rapidly increasing capacity to supply 
food, both vegetable and animal, cheaply and abundantly, to the in- 
creasing millions of the old world. To give an adequate view of the 
immense magnitude of the annual crop, he added the striking statistical 
fact that "the cereals of these states, if placed in barrels side by side, 
would encircle the globe." 

Let the statesman and the philanthropist, says his report, ponder 
well the magnitude of the fact, and all its far-reaching consequences, 
policital, social and moral, in the increased industry, tlie increased hap- 
piness, and the assured peace of the world. 

IV. The report proceeds to describe the great metalliferous region 
of the American Union, found between the Missouri River and the 
Pacific Ocean. Tliis whole region is most liberally stocked with min- 
erals. In addition to the deposits of gold and silver, many sections of 
this great region are rich in precious stones, marble, gypsum, salt. tin. 

■quicksilver, asphaltum, coal, iron, copper, lead, and mineral and me- 
dicinal springs. 

All that is ULCess'iry to bring these metals to the light is facility of 
access by an adequate mining population. That will soon be supplied. 

The Pacific Railrr)r'.d is now in process of construction. When ciim- 
pleted, as it easily may be within the next three years, it will o])en the 
way for such an exodus of miners as the country has not seen since the 
first discoveries in California. These are the four cardinal points of the 
report to the Statislicil Congress. It purposely abstained from <Ieduc- 
tinns, and was strictly confined to facts and figures, and yet liy force 
of collocation this statistical address is singularly eloquent and con- 
vincing. It produced such a sensation throughout (Germany, and especi- 
ally among the thoughtful merchants of Hamburg, that Mr. .Anderson 

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of OIlit), our Consul hero, was written to by sonic of the more prominent, 
requesting Mr. R. to address thern at this place, still more at length, 
on the resources of the United States. Mr. Anderson having communi- 
cated to Mr. Ruggles their wishes, he consented to make the address, 
after visiting Russia for the piu'pose of collecting its gold statistics. 
The following notice, circulated among the "merchant princes" of the 
city, was inserted in the chief newspapers: 

"In compliance with the wishes of some of the leading merchants 
of this city, the Hon. S. B. Ruggles, United States Commissioner to the 
International Statistical Congress at Berlin, will deliver an address on 
the Resources, Finances, etc., of the United States, tomorrow afternoon,, 
at '2 o'clock precisely, in one of the rooms in the Borsen-Halle, which 
has been kindly put at his disposal for this i)urpose by the Conmiercium. 

All interested in the above topics are invited to attend. 

Hamburg, Octolier 9, 18()o." 

At the appointed time and place, Mr. Ruggles, after a complimentary 
introduction bj' Mr. Anderson, the American Consul, proceeded to ad- 
dress the most wealthy, influential and intelligent company of merchantSy 
brokers, and other business men, it has ever been my good fortune to^ 
witness. He pursued in the main, the outline oi his Report at Berlin; 
but as he now addressed practical business men, instead of studious 
sui'aus. he employed a more f-.imili-ir and colloquial style, but so striking 
and persuasive as to carry conviction to every hearer. 

He by no means confined himself to the matter contained in his 
report, but complimented the Hamburg merchants on their enlightened 
enterprise in renovating and rebuilding the prosperous and beaiuiful 
city which had risen phenix-like from its ashes. He drew a uo\el and 
striking parallel between Hamburg and the continental interior in its rear, 
of 2,000 miles, to the Volga and Ural mountains: and our own New York 
and its interior continental territory to the Missouri River and the 
Rocky Mountains. The parallel excited great attention, especially in 
connection with the broad political truth that the cause of the present 
population and power of New York was the unobstructed enjoyment 
under a single Government, of comnnmication with all the American 
interior. 

Hamburg, said he, might fill a like continental position, if the ar- 
tificial political barriers erected from time to time could be removed. 
That great work had commenced. The tolls on the Lower Elbe were 
abolished last year: those on the Upper Elbe were so nearly removed 
this year that the river was now practicalK' emancipated. The remaining 
barriers of custom-houses, passports, etc., would ere long disappear. 
Mr. R. proceeded clearly to show that the value of the commerce from 
the ])ort of New York had actually increased since the insurrection, 
occasioned by the development of the vast food-producing capacity of 
the interior. 

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He effectually opened the eyes of his auditors to the great fact that 
having such vast internal resources, the United States, beyond all 
peradventure, could put down the Rebellion, pay the interest on the 
public debt, and moreover render famine impossible both at home and 
abroad. This hasty outline conveys but a very inadequate idea of the 
address. I can only add that it was a complete and triumphant vindica- 
tion of our country from the malicious slurs our "neutral" enemies 
have been making against her credit and resources since the com- 
mencement of the war, and from the constant and wanton allegations 
of a part of the British press. 

The following letter has been addressed to Mr. Ruggles by many 
of those who listened to his remarks: 

'■H.\mi'a:rg, October 10, 18G3. 

To THE IIOX. S. B. RUGGLE.S, 

U. S. Commissioner lo the International Statistical Congress at 
Berlin. 

Dear Sir: — Having had the honor to listen to the able aand interest- 
ing address this day delivered by you at the Bourse, at the request of 
some of the leading merchants of Hamburg, on the resources and con- 
dition of America, and having been struck with the importance of its 
statements, and wishing to give it a wide circulation, we respectfully 
request that you will furnish us a copy for publication." 

[Here follow the names of many prominent merchants.] 

I cannot but think that the selection of Mr. Ruggles as our national 
representative for this particular mission to Berlin in the present junc- 
ture of our foreign affairs, was very fortunate for the country, and an- 
other proof of the sagacity of Mr. Lincoln, and the Secretary of State. 
His scholarship, practical acquirements, and above all his skillful use of 
statistical facts, his genial yet respectful manner, and his peculiar style 
of eloquence (savoring so little of the stump orator), have made his 
sojourn in Europe productive of results the beneficial influences of 
which will long . be felt by our country. Whether we view him as a 
profound and methodical statistician, representing the interests of his 
country in the halls of the learned Congress, embracing delegates from 
thirty-four sovereign powers, or as explaining our resources personally 
to the eminent Ministers of State, not only of Prussia, but of our great 
ally, Imperial Russia, or v.hether in conferring with the pious and ven- 
erable ecclesiastics of the Russian Synods on the graver topic of strength- 
ening Christian fellowship between the churches of the two great Em- 
pires, just about to meet on the Pacific, he has acquitted himself with 
signal ability in the important duties for which he was so happily se- 
lected.' 

It is earnestly to be hoped that he will not long delay to comply with 

1 Mr. Ruggle.s resided in New York oity. I liave many most interest- 
ing letters written by him from St. Petersbui'g, Berlin. Paris. London, and 
elsewhere. 

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the request of the merchants, to prepare a full report of the broad and 
-comprehensive speech at the Exchange of Hamburg, (the greatest in the 
world), and which furnished a forum so appropriate. 

J. H. A. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio. Dec. 9. 1863. 

My dear Son : — I just got a copy of the X. Y. Daily Tribune 
of the 3d inst., containing quite a lengthy letter from Hamburg, 
signed "J. H. A." Our Republican pai:ier is so crowded with 
war news that this letter will not be republished just yet. Sain. 
Dumble, our publisher, first noticed it in the Tribune. He said 
if he were the publisher of a large city daily, he would like you 
to be its editor, that you write "with sense and snap." ~^ ''' * 

Before you get this, you will have learned that under Gen. 
Grant, we have whipped and driven Gen. Bragg out of East 
Tenn. Lyman Spaulding, Eugene Tillotson. and T. J. Ander- 
son, Jr., were in these awful battles: Chattanooga, Lookout 
Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Knoxville. Our losses were 
heavy, especially in Gen. W. T. Sherman's corps, to which Capt. 
T. J. Anderson's regiment, (12th Ind.) belonged. The 12th 
■suffered severely in killed and wounded. 

Gen. Burnside^ repulsed and routed Gen. Longstreet last 
week at Knoxville, the Rebels sustaining far greater losses than 
our own people. Your friend Gen. Carl .Schurz, is now in Tenn., 
and was in all the recent desperate battles under Gen. Grant. 
Gen. Banks is doing good work in Texas, along the Rio Grande, 
and elsewhere. * * * 

I hope you make a constant study of the goodness and mercy 
of God, to whom we look for supporting grace. I trust you and 

1 Gen. Burn.side, with 13,000 effective men, within the wonderfully 
planned defenses of Knoxville, was besieged by 20,(K)0 well seasoned troops 
under Gen. Longstreet, from November 18th until December 2d, ISC:', when 
the siege was abandoned. The conduct and bravery of the Union troops 
in the trenches at Knoxville, cannot be overpraised, nor can the desperate 
valor of the Confederates, especially on the 29th of November. "The total 
Federal loss in the siege and prior engagements v,-as ClYA: the Confederates 
lost l,?>'.y2." On December 7th President Lincoln asked the '"loyal people" 
to "assemble at their place.s of worship, and render spacial homage and 
gratitude to Almighty God:" and the next day he sent a message of thanks 
■•nnd "profoundest gratitude" to Gen. Grant and his command. 

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your family will "lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven," 
"for where your treasure is there will your heart be also." O 
how swee'l, and how pleasant it is, to draw our supplies from 
heavenly fountains! These frail bodies must soon moulder in 
dust, but the prospect of a blessed immortality, when these 
earthly tenements fail, exalts the stnil. 

Your father, 

T. J. Andp:rson. 



MISS ANNME E. AXDEKSON TO JAMIiS H. A NMJKRSON. 

Marion^ Ojiio, December 21, 1863. 

Wy 1)i:.\r HkothI'Ir:- -Mother says I must t^ive you the home 
news. Well (in the first place,) Capt. J. Marshall Godman is to 
be married next Thursday, the day before Christmas, to a youn<^ 
lady from Vermont, Miss Carrie Leonard, niece of "old father 
Crimes" who resides south of town. lie made her acquaintance 
in Autjust, when she began teaching music here; rather a short 
courtshi]), but that seems to l)e the fashion now. She is a sweet 
girl, a general favorite, highly accomplished, and such a lady! 
She is older than AL, but he might look farther and fare worse. ^ 
Mrs. Ciodman- will give a large ])arty on Christmas evening. 
There will be several parties during the holidays. Cousin Alice-"' 
and her husband are at home on a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Philip 
I^hillijis-* are going to Cincinnati to reside. We are very sorry : 

1 Mr. and Mrs. J. Marshall Godman reside in Cleveland. 

- The wife of Gen. James IT. Godman. 

■■* Mr. and Mrs. Osborn (Samuel C. and Alice J.) 

' I'hilip Phillips, married charming Olive M. Clark of Marion county. 
September 27, 1800. As a teacher of music, as a public singer, and as an 
author he was very successful. 20,000 copies of his first book, entitled 
Early Blossoms, were soon sold. 70,000 copies of his second book, Musical 
Leaves, were disposed of. His third book, the Singing Pilgrim, had an 
extremely large sale. His fourth book, a work of 'MV) pages, the most 
entertaining of all, entitled the Song Pilgrimage Around and Throughout 
the World, is still in demand. Mr. Phillips had a music store in Cincinnati, 
and one in New York. In the society of his wife he traveled the world 
over, and died in retirement in Delaware, O., June 24th, 1895. He enjoyed 
the love and respect of many people. And in all their wanderings, he and 
his wife fondly turned to Marion as their home. Mrs. Olive M. Phillips, 
writing to me July 21, 1903, says: "Mr. Phillips wrote or edited eighteen 
different song books, and a number of them have been translated into 
foreign languages; nnd many tunes of his own composition have been sung 
all over the world" 

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they are such fine people. Mrs. Kate Godman's Httle daughter 
is l)ut a few days old.^ * * '■' John B. Wilhams, whose 
heaUh is not good, resigned his commission in the army, and 
will settle in Warsaw, Ind. His mother is very glad I assure 
you, that he quit the service. * * * 

Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAiNIES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, December 21, 1863. 

Dear Jaaies : — It is a long long time since we heard from 
you. Your last was dated October 31st, and came in a shorter 
time than usual. So your letters have probably miscarried. 

Your father, who is not well to-day, is lying down, but now 
suffers less pain than a while ago, and is better. We are now 
having very cold weather. Saturday and Sunday were as cold 
days I think as any last winter. 

This is the day set for the opening of the Great Sanitary Fair 
at Cincinnati, and it will be a magnificent affair, far surpassing 
in real achievement anything of the kind that has ever taken 
place on this continent. I wish you were all here to attend it. 
I have a great desire to do so, but my health is hardly good 
enough to undergo the fatigue. Annie intended to make some 
fancy articles for the Fair and was anxious to do so, but I was 
so ill she could not find the time. A book about the Fair is to be 
published containing the names of all contributors, and I should 
consider it an honor to have my name appear in it. When the 
■subject of the Fair was first mooted, I contemplated making a 
good many fancy articles, and forwarding them in the names of 
Princie and Annie. Cone-frames that would have been very 
•salable, Annie can make, but sickness, etc., prevented. 

^ Mrs. Kate Godman, wife of Henry Clay Godman of Columbus, was 
so unfortunate as to lose all her children long before her own death. 
She had the sympathy of every one who knew her, for all loved her. It 
was a common remark that only a few possessed so many admirable 
"traits of character as this bright companionable lady. Born in Zanesville, 
'Ohio, October 30, 183G. her maiden name was Katharine Leonard Copeland. 
She died in Columbus, Ohio, February 14, 1901, and was buried in Marion. 
"I was a pallbearer. 

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The raih'oads, steamhoats and cx])ress companies carry do- 
nations free. Visitors g'oing and coming ])ay half-fare rates. 
The Fair is to last two weeks, and every i)o|)ular and lawfnl 
scheme will he resorted to for the purpose of raising money. 
Those at the head of the enterprise expect it to realize a large 
5:Lim, and 1 hope it may, for the sake of our i)oor sick and 
wounded soldiers. The public houses are making great prepa- 
rations to entertain the people, and promise moderate bills. The 
eili/en-; are also doing their ])art and jjroviding liberally. 

1 wish you were here for vou would enjoy it so much. l)ut 
you would need a pocketful of money. S )iue business firms in 
Cincinnati have agreed to donate tlieir profits for two weeks, and 
the profits of those great houses are not small. Ollie Phillips 
who has just returned from Cincinnati, says the preparations for 
the Fair, and the decorations of the halls, etc., exceed anything 
she has ever seen. 

Your father just visited the gallery of Mr. Moore, the da- 
guerreian artist, and saw a likeness of Virgil. He doesn't con- 
sider it a good one, but others think otherwise. Moore says it 
was taken six or seven years ago. If it looks at all like him 
we will have copies made and send you one. 

I was much pleased with the Hamburg correspondence of the 
N. Y. Tribune, and thought it discovered marked ability. * * * 
Kiss Mary and baby for me, and tell M — that grandma wants 
to see her paintings, and hear her read German, and talk French. 

Your afi:"ectionate mother. 

P. S. I am pleased to learn that the Wards^ are such good 
friends of yours. The society of such people can hardly be 
otherwise than agreeable and beneficial. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1863. 

My dear Son : — We have been lofiking for a letter from \on 
tv/o or three weeks. * * * I have not had as good health 



' Mr. John- Ward. C. B.. the British Consul General and Chargg d' 
Affaires at Hamburg, and his family. 

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this fall <-• usual, hut 1 still attend to all my business as well as 
your own. Last winter Virgil assisted me, and did some work 
at ^1 e office, which I now think was more than he was really 
able to do, but this fall he was too feeble to be of any service. 
Recollect that if I live till the 2d day of April next I will be 
63 years of age, which in comiection with my broken bones 
and crippled limbs makes me feel old and infirm. I still attend 
to business however about as well as other men I believe. * * * 

John K. Hammerle, the owner of the Marion steam-sawmill, 
i? about to visit his fatherland. He expects to leave New York 
in the Hamburg steamer that sails on the 9th of January. He 
will call upon you. He is a pretty clever "Dutchman," and I 
wish you to treat him well and kindly, and show him all the 
attention that a neighbor is entitled to. Lie voted for Vallandig- 
ham, like most of our Germans in this country, but I think they 
are all sorry for it now. They were beaten so badly is one reason 
they are sorry. 

Mr. Charles ^lunzenberg^ is well pleased with the letter you 
wrote him. Levi Anderson still lives, but is very weak. J. H. 

S has absconded to parts unknown. His note was paid by 

his sureties John McKelvy, and Joseph Lindsay, without process. 
Give my love to Mary and James T. 

Your affectionate father, 

T. J. Andekson. 

1 Karl Miinzenberg-, generally known as Charles or Charley Mincin- 
berg, was born September 20, 1802, in Weimir, the capital of the Grand 
Duchy of Saxe- Weimar. Ke was not a learned man, but as he knew Goethe 
personally, he loved to speak of his simple ways and wonderful genius. He 
talked also of the other great poets, Schiller, Herder, and Wieland, who 
with Goethe had made Weimar famous. Goethe died in ISIVi, and Karl 
came to the United States July 2. 1834, landing in Baltimore, and going 
thence to Marion. Karl Munzenberg was an industrious, upright, kind- 
hearted man, and accumulated considerable property. Adam Ault married 
Karl's daughter Elizabeth, and their son Mr. Ed. AuU. an intelligent young 
man. was City Civil ICngineer of Marion in 1901. In tlie Spring of 18(5.5, 
when I was at home in Ohio on leave of absence, Mr. Miinzenberg gave 
me a lot of money to invest in presents in Hamburg, for relatives in 
Weimar, and I carried ovit his wishes to the best of my ability. Some 
time after coming to Marion, Karl Ijought a town lot for ,$75.00 on the north- 
east corner of East, now State street, and Mill street, on which lie built 
a shop and residence. This lot was sold to E. Hulaer in February 1901 
for .$4, .500.00. Mr. Munzenberg was united in marriage in Marion to Miss 
Nancy Hunt. Their only surviving child — Mrs. Elizabeth Ault — an ex- 
cellent lady, whose husl:iand died about the first of December 1902, resides- 
with her family in Marion. Her father passed away respected by all who 
knew him Feliruary 10. 187.5. and was buried in Marion. 

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P. S. Pork is selling at $/ per cwt., lieef $5, butter 25 cents 
per lb., corn $1 per bu., eggs 20 cents per doz. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMI'LS H. ANDERSON. 

Marion Ohio, January 3, 1864. 

Dear Son : ■ — • We received yours of the 5th ult. on Christmas 
day, and no Christmas present could have been more acceptable ; 
it seemed so long since we had heard from you. It is a gratifica- 
tion to get such letters and to know that you take a deep interest 
in the ones at home — in the few that are left. You know I al- 
ways felt the most intense interest in your welfare. * * * 

I have not the health I would like, but I keep up all day and 
go out some. Took dinner on Christmas at the residence of our 
neiglibor Mrs. W. 

At Levi Anderson's funeral last week 1 took cold, and have 
not been cjuite well since. Poor Levi! After untold suffering 
for eight months his freed spirit took its flight. He died on 
Monday the 28th of Dec. of consumption. The bell is now 
tolling for the funeral of David Mouser's wife, who died of 
lung fever. A little son of Girard Reynolds died a few days 
ago.^ 

I shall not attend church to-day: it is so cold. On the 31st 
ult. it rained all day, and part of the night, l)ut before morning 
it was cold enough to freeze and greatly injure my plants. We 
had a letter from Lyman,- who passed safely through the battle 



. 1 The handsome wife of Captain Girard Reynolds, was a daughter of 
Alvin C. Priest, and his wife E)lizabeth Baker, daughter of Eber Baker, the 
founder of Marion. 

- Oapt. Lyman Spaulding of Marion, graduated, A. B., August 4, 1S47, 
at the Ohio Wesleyan University. Prof. R. W. McFarland, I.1L. D., gradu- 
p.ted at the same time, receiving the same degree. They were the only 
graduates. The year before, August 5, 1846, William D. Godman of Marion 
was the sole graduate, and the first to graduate at that celebrated insti- 
tution of learning. Prof. McFarland, a relative of the heroic pioneer Simon 
Kenton, was born in Champaign county, Ohio, June 10. 1825, and was con- 
nected with Ohio schools, academies, colleges, and universities as teacher, 
professor, or president, for 42 years. His scholarsliip. capacity, persever- 
ance, and high character have never Ijeen questioned. In our late Civil 
War he was the brave and relia1)le lieutenant colonel of the Stith O. V. I. 

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of Missionary Ridge, and the next day his regiment was sent 
to reinforce Burnside.^ They made a five days' march without 
tents. How do these poor fellows stand this severe weather? 
It is astonishing that a man of Lyman's constitution can endure 
so much exposure. In the battle of Missionary Ridge, Eugene- 
was wounded — not dangerously — on the head and face. * . * * 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, January 5, 1864. 

Dear Son : — * * * Capt. Ebenezer Peters, came home 
yesterday from the army feeling very tmwell. * * * Our army 
has driven the Rebels out of East Tenn., and we hold Knoxville, 
Parson Brownlow's home. The parson-^ has resumed the publi- 
cation of the Knoxville Whig. The Rebels cannot stand it much 
longer without help from Europe, vvhich from present appear- 
ances they are not likely to get. This winter our army will be 
filled and strengthened, and in the spring we shall be able to 
suppress the rebellion. This is the general opinion. My love 
to Princess and the children. God bless you and your family. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. John K. Ilammerle, has not yetjreceived his passport. 
He expects to sail from New York on the 23d inst. He will visit 
Hamburg, and other parts of Germany. 

As an author, liis writings connmancl the respect of all competent critics. 
He was 12 years a professor at tlie Ohio State University, and during 7 
years of the time I was the resident trustee: — hence I know whereof I write. 

1 Gen. Burnside. was then at Knoxville. Tenn. 

- Capt. Thomas Eug'ene Tillotson. 

^ Hon. V^''. G. Brownlow. (lSO.5-1877) : in early life a Methodist preacher; 
many years editor of the Knoxville Whig; earnestly opposed secession; 
became known as the "Fighting Parson"; was the center of the Unionist 
feeling in E. Tenn., and was imprisoned by the Rebels. He was governor 
of Tenn., ISOo-ti"), and U. S. Senator 1SG9-75. An eccentric, honest, patriotic 
man. of much force of character. He was neither learned nor profound, 
but the man foi- the time ancl the place. In many respects he resembled 
our own U.en.i. F. Wade, long in the V. S. Senate from Ohio. 

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MRS. THOISIAS J. ANDI':RS0N 'JO jA.Ml'.S II. AXDICKSON. 

Marion, Onio, Jainiary 17, 1864. 

Dear Son: — How are yon and I'rincic. and those little 
chernbs? How pleasant if you could all step in on us this wintry 
Sabbath morning-. My pen is quite too feeble to portray my 
feelings on such a hai^py event. Well as we cannot meet, I wish 
you to feel that I would rejoice with you in all your joys, and 
sorrow with you in all your sorrows. 1 am presuming you are 
not exempt from the trials of life: the common lot of humanity. 

You will find X'irgil's likeness herewith, a very good one, — 
as he appeared eight or nine years ago when it was taken. Moore 
the i)hotographer, found it among some old i)ictures in his work- 
shop, or "art gallery" as he calls his little aerie. I am sensible 
Frary took the picture. '■' ''■' * It looks like his work. * * * 
I was verv sick when I ascertained that Moore had it. He re- 
fused to let any one take it away to show it to me. * * * 
So three days ago. the first time I had been out for some time, 
I went to Moore's "gallery" and bought the i)icture. The one 
sent you is a copy. 1 like it better than the photographs of 
to-dav : It is more lifelike. It was taken in the old ambrotype 
style. 

Yesterday Mr. John (Jurley's house was burned to the 
ground, and the symi)athy of the community is aroused in his 
"behalf. The people l)y great exertion succeeded in saving the 
most of his household goods. 

\Miat a delightful tri]) you had to Coi)enhagen ! Wish 
Princess could have accom])anied you, and I wish J could have 
been along too. 

W^ell v/hat about the Schleswig-Holstein war? 1 supi)ose you 
are all quite safe ; still I cannot help feeling some concern as 
Hamburg is on the very border of Holstein. I observe that 
several nations are arrayed against the Danes, — Austria, and the 
German states, including Prussia.^ and that neither England nor 
Russia will support Denmark. In the present crisis the death 

1 It was Prussia and Austria against Denmark. It was Bismarck's 
p'.ot — a pai-t of his macohiavelian ))olicy — to sain more territory for 
Prussia, and Itetter hart)ors, particularly the line harbor of Kiel. After 
the war. when Austria insisted (jii a fair di\isi<iii (d' th.' spoils, war fol- 
lowed, and Prussia got the lliree duidiies wrested from little Denmark. 

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of the king of Denmark was very unfortunate. Has he no soo 
to inherit his crown ?i It is reported that he favored a repubhc,. 
and was about to abdicate, and call upon the people of his king- 
dom to sustain him. I think it would be unwise to attempt to 
establish a republic in that country for it could hardly stand. 
I notice with surprise that arms are being returned to Europe 
from New York. 

The cheapness of gloves in Copenhagen surprised me. I 
wish you had bought me a few pairs, for which I would will- 
ingly have paid a handsome percentage. Cora presented me a 
pair as a New Year's gift, but they stubbornly refuse to fit me. 

As Mr. J. K. Hammerle,2 who is al)out to visit Germany has 
said all along that he would call upon you, your father concluded 
to give him a package of letters to deliver, including a letter of 
introduction. * * * You will find this a poor letter. A^Iiss 
Jennie Sharp of Delaware, and others, are doing so much talking 
and laughing that I can't write. 

Your affectionate mother. 

1 _^ 

' When Frederick VII, king of Denmark, died November 15, 1863, the 
male line became extinct. By a treaty signed in London, May 8, 1852, re- 
lative to the succession in case of default of male issue in the direct 
line of Frederick VII, the crown was to pass to Prince Christian of 
Gliickstaurg-, and his wife the Princess Louisa of Hesse. As soon as the 
ministry at Copenhagen received news of king Frederick's death — November 
15, 1863 — Prince Christian of Gliicksburg, was proclaimed king, as Chris- 
tian IX. 

By the treaty of Vienna, October .30, 1834, (after the defeat of the 
Danes by Austria and Prussia), Denmark was forced to cede to Austria 
and Prussia, the three provinces of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg. 
By the treaty of Prague, August 23, 1866, (after the defeat of Austria by 
Prussia, at the battle of Sadowa. July 3, 1866,) Prussia secured the three 
duchies, but has paid no regard to the article in the treaty stipulating 
that the northern Danish speaking part of Schleswig should be given 
back to Denmark. King Christian IX', now (1903), very old, still reigns, 
beloved by all his subjects. One of his handsome daughters became em- 
piess of Russia, another is queen of Great Britain and empress of India, 
find a son is king of Greece. 

I spent a week in jCopenhagen. on a quasi-diplomatic mission, (else- 
where referred to in this work), in the month of November 1863, while 
the dead king Frederick VII, was lying in state, and was greatly impressed 
by the appearance and intelligence of the gallant Danes. 

- John K. Hammerle was born on the ocean, in the month of March 
1833. During his residence in Marion lie owned and operated a steam saw- 
mill, located on Prospect street, which he bought of Otho and Byron 
Kanable. He moved away during 1866 or 1867, and is now in Hamilton, 
Ohio. He has a sister and a nephew in Marion. His sister is Mrs. Edward 
Huber. and his nephew is Otto F. Hammerle. J. K. Hammerle is now liv- 
ing with his second wife, whose name before she was married was Miss- 
Emily Huber. 



Of Judge Thomas J. Anderson and Wife 

MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMl'.S H. ANOEKSOX. 

Marion, Ohio, January r/, 1864. 

Dear Princie: — I have been slio])pini;-, trying to find some- 
thing small but nice to send you by the bearer, but everything 
here is ordinary and inferior to what you daily see. He has no 
facilities for carrying anything but small ])()rtable nicknacks. 
otherwise I could pick up something fit to send you. Annie sends 
you herewith, Bayard Taylor's Hannah Thurston, for which 
there is now a great demand. It mav answer to while away some 
tedious hours. Hattie sends you, Fanny Kemble Butler's Resi' 
dence on a Georgia Plantation. It is well written, but dreadful 
in its revelations. 

I just saw Mr. and Mrs. John Gurley. They are visiting to- 
day at the residence of Mrs. Jane S. Williams. I dreaded to see 
them : they feel so discouraged. 

Mrs. Judge Bartram returned a few days ago from Cincinnati, 
after an absence of three weeks. I have had no opportunity to 
talk to her about the Sanitary Fair, but shall call on her soon, 
and expect to learn many things that could not be gleaned from 
the papers. The net profits will foot up a large sum, some think 
half a million, but I fear not. The amount of the receipts men- 
tioned in the last official report was $200,000,' and the fair 
was still open. Indeed Princie it was a grand fair, far sur- 
passing an^•thing of the kind that ever occurred in the country. 

I presume the newspapers have informed you of our extreme 
cold weather. \Tgetables are pretty generally frozen, and will 
he very dear in the spring. There has been much suffering in 
camp. Warm as our house is,- we found it all we could do to 
keep comfortable. Down in Tenn., on the Ala. and Ga. line, ice 
formed three inches thick on New Year's night. It reads like 
a fish-story, but newspaper reporters vouch for it. Kiss Mary 
and baby for me. 



1 C^ver a quarter of a million of dollars were realized, says the Report 
signed by R. ^V. Burnet, Pres., and George Hoadly and I.arz Anderson, 
V. Presidents, after paying all expenses. For an aceount (if tlie millions 
collected and disbursed by the Ohio Aid Societies, during th.- War, sec 
AVhitelaw Reid's Ohio in the War, Vol. 1, pp. 251-272. Sec also the History 
of the Great Western Sanitary Fair. 

-A large two-story house on K. Center street, having very thick walls: 
the first story slone, the second brick. 

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Princie. be of good cheer. Read your l)ible daily ; claim the 
promises therein ; claim your part in Christ's redemption. He 
will stand 1)y }ou in every trial, and prove a shield and rock of 
defense. May the arms of his love and mercy encircle you. 
Hoping and believing that you will get through all your diffi- 
culties, and come home in better health than when you went 
away, I remain 

Yours affectionatelv. 



THOMAS J. AXDKRSON TO JAMK.S II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, January 18, 1864. 

My dear Son: — Mr. John K. Hammerle, a resident of Ma- 
rion, is about to visit your city, and other parts of Germany, as 
you have been informed, and you will give him all necessary at- 
tention while he remains in Hamburg. He expects to return in 
the ^spring, and will bring anything you may wish to send home. 
He is a man of good reputation, and you will discover from his 
passport which I obtained for him from the Department of State, 
that he is an American citizen. 

Mr. Orren Patten,^ l)ought Col. J. H. (iodman's old home- 
stead for $6,500 and has moved into it. The colonel has gone with 
his family to Columbus, to take charge of his office — Auditor 
of State — to which he was elected last fall. Orren Patten has 
sold the Bowen orchard on E. Center street. It is now owned 
by the Fites, Mrs. T. H. Dickerson, P. O. Sharpless, W. A. 
Turney, E. G. Allen and Charles Baker. 

Your cousin. Dr. James H. Carpenter, of Ind., is captain of a 
company in the /th Ind. cavalry, and is now in Tenn. Your 
uncle just received a letter from his son Capt. Thos. J. Ander- 
son, Jr. Under Gen. W. T. Sherman he has gone through many 
hard fought battles ; Vicksl)urg, Chattanooga, and others. He 
is a brave soldier and a good officer. 

I just remitted $120.00 to Mr. S. Tillotson, that his son 
EugeuQ sent to me for that purpose. Mr. Tillotson's family are 



' Mr. Dnoii P;itten was in early life a merchant, but at the time of 
his death lie was in the l)aiikin;,'- business, and a partner of T. P. Wallace. 
He was highly esteeme(i. 

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all well, lie now lives on bis farm of over 200 acres, in Coles 
county. 111., two miles fi-om L'harleston. the coimt\- seat. 

\'on will l)c ])lease(l to receive the likeness or portrait of your 
brother \ ir^il, which your mother has sent you, and which was 
taken when he was in the bloom of early manhood. Cars are 
now running- through Marion on the Croad Ciauge Railroad. My 
love to Mary and James 'J\ 

Your father, 

T. T- Andkrson. 



MRS. THOMAS j. .VKDKRSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Feb. 2d, 1864. 

Mv I)I':ar Son: — We heard last week c|uite by accident that 
Selsori was at home. 1 could not imagine what induced him to 
return fr(jm Cermanv so nuicJT sooner than he contemplated. I 
at once wrote asking him to visit us but have received no answer. 

^'ou will find enclosed a condensed account of the great Fair 
at Cincinnati, (in aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission), and 
the only fault I fmd with it is, it gives the whole credit to Cin- 
cinnati. Not that Cincinnati coidd well have too much ])raise, 
but other j^laces get too little. Liberal donations from hundreds 
of other places hel]ied to swell the receipts ; liesides represen- 
tative men and w(jmen from the entire state visited the Fair, 
and emptied their pockets into its treasury.- Well the result 
was unexi)ectedly gratifying-, and all should be satisfied. .An- 
other fair for the same piu-pose wall take i)lace in Cleveland on 
the 22(1 inst. 1die folks here are now very busy making ar- 
rangements and ];re])arations to be fully re])resented. 

The peo])le of Marion u'ill also give the re-enlisted soldiers 
a grand reception on the (;th. The Marion county men of the 



' Mrs. Jame.s H. Anderson's lirother. 

- Tlie noble work done by the Aid Societies. Sanitary Commissions, 
Cliristian Commissions, and Soldiers' Fairs never can b" written. They 
collected and used vast sums of money and supplies I'.jr tlie sol<li«'rs. Tliey 
sent relief to the battle-tieMs on a scale commensui-atc with the wants of 
the sick and wounded. They wei-e "the first to equip hospital boats, and 
it led to the patient, faithful work anions the armies, particularly in the 
-West throuKhout the war." The oftteers of these Societies were influenced 
by humanity. jnU riotism and piety, and n it I)y the hope of sain. 

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64th and 82d regiments will be here, besides soldiers of other 
regiments that may be at home on leave. Annie being very busy 
will not write this time. She is on the Fair Committee, as well 
as the Committee on hall decorations for the reception. * * * 

Will the Schleswig-Holstein imbroglio result in peace or war? 
In yours of the 12th of Dec. you stated that hostile armies were 
on either side of your city. In yours of the ist of January you 
say nothing about the war cloud, but I see by the papers that it is 
likely to blow over. God grant it may, for what would become 
of the poor people in those small but densely populated coun- 
tries ? 

Patten and Wallace the bankers, have bought up our railroad 
stock,! ^^-^f^ made a great deal of money. They got it very low, 
and it is said the information on which they acted was obtained 
from Col. J. H. Godman. They thereupon made the Godmans 
some nice presents ; and the latter, not to be outdone in gener- 
osity, have handsomely returned the compliment. The recipients 
were Mrs. J. H. Godman, Mrs. H. C. Godman, Mrs. J- Marshall 
Godman, Mrs. C. Carroll Godman, Mrs. T. P. Wallace, and Mrs. 
Orren Patten, and further deponent saith not. 

James, you will hardly believe me when 1 tell you that I am 
so low spirited I have scarcely been able to push my pen, but I 
should not have told you ; I never did before. You don't know 
my anxieties : but perhaps I am nearing the dotage period. * * * 
Lyman has sent home to Cora two pictures of Gen. Rosecrans,- 
one of which he requests Cora to send to Mary at Hamburg. I 
hope God may have you in His holy keeping, and that we may 
meet again, ^^'ith nuich love, 

Your affectionate moth.er. 

P. S. Princie why don't you write? Did you get the pic- 
tures that Mrs. F. sent vou of her children ? Having received 

^ The ro;\(l was first known as the Franklin and Warren Railroad, then 
as the Atlantic and Great Western, and Anally as the N. Y. P. and O. 
Put its popul.ir name for a good many years was the Broad Gauge Railroad. 

- Gen. \Villiam Starke Rosecrans, was born on a farm in Kingston 
township, Delaware county, O., September 6, 1819. The ancestors of his 
father came from Amsterdam. His mother Jemima Hopkins, a daughter of a 
soldier of the Revolution, was a relative of Timothy Hopkins, the signer 
of the Declaration of Independence. The general and his brother the bishop, 
though reared devoted Protestants, became zealous Roman Catholics. Gen. 
Ro.secrans died near Redondo, Cal., March 11, 1898. 

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aio acknowledgment she is afraid they never reached you. Slie 
is now very weh, but is every day expecting to be * * * 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MR. AND MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, February 2, 1864. 

Dear Brother and Sister: — I thank you very much for 
the nice presents which Selsor has just brought me. I don't 
know which I hke the most. The ring I think is beautiful Ehza 
D. was here s])en(hng the afternoon when Selsor came : so she saw 
al! the presents and thougb.t them very pretty. Alary B. W.^ 
also thinks them pretty. Selsor is as lively and jolly as ever. 
I tell him that his European tour has improved him much. How 
do do you like my picture? Selsor doesn't like it. Again thank- 
ing you, I remain. 

Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



1 Mary B. ^Villiams, daughter of Judge Joseph J. and "Jane S. Beatty 
WiHiams, was •born in Marion, in October IMl. and was married (in the 
liouse in which she was born), June 20. 1807, to Rev. John D. Stokes, A. 
B., A. M. It was a love match: they had known each other from child- 
hood; they occupied the same high moral plane; and their tastes and ideals 
were not remote or dissimilar. At the marriage altar, the remark was heard: 
'•What a handsome couple!" Her grandfather Benjamin Williams, born 
m New Jersey, in 177.5, !iv<'d many years in Romney, Va., was married to Jane 
Hood of Maryland, in INOl, and they settled in Marion county in 1825. John 
D. Stokes was bcrn in Marion in 1839; was graduated from Washing-ton 
•and Jefferson College in ISfil; from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1867; 
was ordained by the Presbytery of Long Island, May 21, 1S(;7 and installed 
as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at East Hampton. L. I., which 
■position he has held ever since. He has declined invitations 1o other llelds 
of labor. He was in Uie Civil War for four months. i;!C)th regiment, O. N. 
G. His parents came from Pennsylvania to Marion in is:«, his father 
introducing the first steam engine used in Marion county. His father's father 
was a clergyman, preaching many years in Chambersburg, Pa. Rev. John 
T>. Stokes received the honorary degree of Doctor <if Divitiity from the 
Tniversity of New York, June 9th 1001; an honor from a great rniversity 
■v.-orthily bestowed. 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDKRSON TO JAMKS II. ANDERSON'. 

M.VRiON, Ohio, February 2, 1864. 

De.\r Princte: — Selsor^ is here tonight and we are all glad 
to see him, hut sorry he did not stay longer abroad. He would 
surely have l:)een lienefited. Indeed he is nmch im])roved. I do 
not know how to thank you enough for the bolt of linen. I 
value it highlw It just suits me. 1 could not have been suited 
better. It was almost too much for you to go out into the 
city to l3uy it. And the little cushion wrought by sweet little 
Marv is so nice. * * * It is late at night : I must close. 

Your mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. .\N1)ERS0N TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, < )hio, February 15, i8()4. 

iMv DEAR Son: — Today I received your letter of the 22d 
tdt., enclosing copies of some of vour dispatches to the Secretary 
of State. All were very interesting. Your letter of the 17th 
ult. came ab»ut a v/eek ago. Its publication you left optional 

1 David Sol.sor Miller, son of David and Sarah Bent Miller, was born 
June 23, lS4;->. on his father's large stock farm about seven miles south of 
Upper Sandusky, in Pitt township, Wyandot county, Ohio. He was edu- 
cated in Bowsherville. in Upper Sandusky, and in Delaware. Ohio; also In 
the city of Hanover in Germany. Since quitting school his time has been 
spent as a planter on his very large plantation on the Tombigbee river 
in Ala., a stock-dealer in Pittsburg, as a farmer and stock-grower and 
stock-buyer in Wyandot county. Ohio, and as a buyer and shipper of baled 
straw and baled hay in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He is a great-grandson of 
Col. Silas Bent of the Revolution, and of the Ohio Company, who with 
other Revolutionary officers settled Ohio in 1788. He is a Mason of high 
degree, a Shriner, and a member of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. He is a widovv'er without children; and is ."pend- 
ing his declining years like a philosopher, in liis own cottage, in Upper 
Sandusky, the ancient capital of the Wyandots. where he makes it a point 
to take in and enjoy all the good things of life, including some of its 
luxuries. In 18R3 in the company of his friend Gov. Joseph A. ^V^'right of 
Indiana, he made the tour of Europe, and at Venice, these two susceptible 
gentlemen were so affected by the lare and fascinating beauty of the 
Venetian ladies of high descent that they well-nigh lost their hearts. At 
least this is true of the governor, for he told me so on his return to Hain- 
burg. It will be remembered that Gov. Wright was appointed by President 
Lincohi to represent tlie United States in 1863 at the Great International 
AgricuUnral l':.\iiil)ition at Hamliurg. 

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with us. After looking- it over carcfull\ I c(inclii(k'<I it was not 
just what you would like to see in ])rint over vour own signa- 
ture. I felt you would not want anything- ])ul)lislied that did not 
do you justice. 1 knew 1 was not capahle of ])utting- it in any 
better shape, and I did not wish to let the editor attempt it. 

People often ask me why vou don't write something for our 
paper. T wish you would do so, hut let it he addressed to one 
of the family: it need not he known that it was intended for the 
press, \\dien ycm have written such a letter, and 1 hope vou 
will do so before long. 1 will send it to the editor as. soon as 
received. 

I wish 1 could see all voiu" nice things, particularly the 
beautiful piece of coral you mention. 

You alhide to the amount of your work. 1 am sorry that 
you have more than you are able to do. but 1 believe you are 
happier than if you had only half as much. ^\)U should have 
more help. Why not employ others to assist you in making out 
your reports ? 

Our papers teem almost daily with accounts of the Schles- 
wig-Holstein war. Tell me all about it. l-Ywv of our people 
really understand the complex ([uestions involved. 

Etigene is here, has re-enlisted, came home on a thirt_\'-day 
furlough, and expects to be a captain on his return, lie is a 
fine looking voung fellow*. He is now staying with us. but expects 
to go to Illinois next week. He ex])ects to l)e detailed to recruit, 
and if so. this will be his field of labor till the 5th of March, 
when all recruiting will cease, and the draft be enforced. Eugene 
is very popular with his men. and has commanded the company 
for some time. They all re-enlisted : and on their way home. 
at Cincinnati. |)resented him with a beautiful sw-ird, belt and 
sash, the wdiole costing not less than one hundred dollars. 
The sword fine steel, and hilt heavily plated v/ith silver; scab- 
bard, steel and heavily plated, and the sash is heavy solid silk. 

Your father will send you the paper you wish, ddiougb 
did trv to do right in the article referred to, his con- 
duct since has been so mean and treasonable that I would not 
have vou write a line for his i)a])er for an}-thing. I don't think 
our l/nion editor has nuich force, but he will ])ul)lish wdth 
pleasure anvthing you may write. 

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Indeed party making is quite expensive in your city. I 
■don't think I should make many, though you must if you go 
out. You don't know how much I want to see you and have a 
good talk. * * * My health is good and that of all the 
family. * * * Cast all your care on the Infinite Supreme 
Ruler, in heaven and on earth, and it shall be well with you. 

Your aiTectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. -ANDERSON. 

j\L\KiON, Ohio, February 15, 1864. 
My dear Son : — I send you today tlie Marion Democratic 
Mirror of March 28th, 1861. which contains a short sketch of 
yourself, and comments on your appointment as U. S. Consul. 
I well remember saying to you at the time the paper appeared, 
that I would preserve it, and that if you took it away it might 
be lost. It was in my desk, just where I could lay my hands 
on it.J 

' The following- editorial appeared in the Marion Democratic Mirror, 
Thunsday, March 28th, 1861. The proprietors of the paper at that time were 
T. H. Hodder and G. W. Spooner. 

"UNITED STATES CONSUE TO EIAMBURO, GERMANY. 

"The Telegraph of last Saturday announced the appointment by Pres- 
ident Lincoln and confirmation by the U. S. Senate, of Hon. James H. 
Anderson, of this place, as Consul to Hamburg. We need not say that upon 
the news reaching here of his appointment that the citizens of this city, 
without distinction of party, felt proud of the distinguished honor con- 
ferred upon one of its citizens. This was natural, and was manifested 
upon his return home by a call for a public congratulating meeting in 
lionor of his appointment to .=o honorable and distinguished a position. 
We need hardly say that in tliis congratulating testimonial, we concurred 
most heartily, sinking partisanship, and burying past personal' differences. 
As a succint history of Mr. Anderson at this time may not be uninter- 
esting nor inappropriate, we give below such facts connected therewith 
as we have been enabled to collate, hastily thrown together. Mr. Ander- 
son was born in Marion, Ohio, on the 16th of March, 1833, and is conse- 
quently at this time 28 years of age. ■ From 1848 to 1852 he prosecuted 
his literary education at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware. Ohio.- 
In 1853 he commenced attending the Cincinnati Law School, and gradu- 
ated in 1854; was admitted to the bar, and returned to Marion, and 
commenced the practice of law. In the spring of 1855 he was elected 
Mayor of Marion, and in October of the same year was elected Prosecut- 
ing Attorney for this county. In 1859 he was a candidate for State Sen- 

' He did not attend the University so long. 

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Be very careful of the health of dear Princess ; 1 fear she is- 
not long for this world. People generally have not sufficient 
charity for persons in poor health, especially where the affliction 
is of long standing. Not that you and your neighbors do not 
think Princess is sorely afflicted, but she may not be thought as 
feeble as she really is ; therefore be careful of her and her 
feelings. A person in her declining health can only be social 
and merry at intervals. I feel very sorry for her in her afflic- 
tion, but she must tr_\- to bear it with Clu'islian philosophy. Only 
look to (kxl who can over-rule all things for the best, and she 
may be spared to you and your children many years. 

Lieut. T. Eugene Tillotson is here and looks well. He and 
his company have re-enlisted for three years, or during the war. 
He is a l)rave soldier and good officer, and is very highly es- 
teemed 1)y all his men.. He has had command of his company 
the most of the time for the past eighteen months. This com- 
pany has had three captains, tw'o of whom resigned, and Capt. 
Grafton^ was wounded and taken prisoner at the great battle 
of Chickamauga ; but Eugene led the men bravely on through 
the terrible slaughter. And after that he led his men in the 
awful battle of Missionary Ridge, where the Rebels were whipped 
and driven in all directions, losing thousands of prisoners. 
Eugene is recruiting here now to fill up the ranks of his deci- 
mated regiment, the 64th O. V. 1., and is quite successful. On 
Monda\" next he wdll visit his parents in Illinois, spending a 
few davs, and then return here, for this is his recruiting field. 

All the veteran soldiers that re-enlist are given a furlough of 
thirty davs, when they nnist return to the service, again to face 



ator from this district, and came within one vote of a nomination, Dr. 
T. B. Fisher, the present incumbent being the successful aspirant. On the 
16th of the present month he was appointed United States Consul to Ham- 
burg, a first class Consulate, by President Lincoln, and was confirmed 
by the U. S. Senate on the 22d inst. Mr. Anderson leaves for Hamburg 
with his family on the 20th of April next. He bears with him the kind- 
liest wishes of his many fiiends here for his health and that of his family, 
and the hope that he may discharge the responsible duties of his office 
acceptbly both to the government of Hamburg, and that government whose- 
representative he is." 

1 Capt. Bryant Grafton whose father was a phy.sieian. was a member 
of a prominent family. The wife of his grandfather Joseph Bryant, was 
a sister of Rev. Alexander Campbell, D. D., LL,. D.. the founder of the 
Campbellite church, or the sect called the Disciples of Christ. The Bryants; 
owned a large stock farm in Marion county. 

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the rebel enemy. ( )ur town is well tilled with veteran soldiers, 
.and a well behaved set of men they are. Those that left here 
far below par, have returned good men. But many have fought 
their last battle, and are silent in death. 

Gen. John Beatty has resigned his plaee in the armv, and 
returned home after serving his country bravely and well. April 
next would have made three years of service for John, and he 
has nearly always been at the front. He was getting $4,000 
a year, but his duty to his familv required him at home. We 
are all proud of John Beatty. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS EUGENE TILLOTSON TO JAMES 11. .\NDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, February 15th, 1864. 

My dear CorsiN : — It is with a great deal of pleasure 
that I sit down to pen you a note, — it Vvill not be a letter, for 
1 can hardly spare a particle of time to attend to ordinary bus- 
iness. My time in Ohio will be very short. I am at home 
on a thirty-day leave of absence, the first T have had since I 
entered the service of Uncle Samuel. I find Marion prett\- much 
as I left it. I do not see many strange faces, Imt miss a great 
many familiar ones that I used to see every day. Tt seems 
more like home than any other spot on the face of the earth, 
and would seem even more like home if my parents were here. 

I ex]^ect to leave here on the 22d to visit them in Blinois. 
where I will remain a few days, then return to this place, and 
afterwards join my regiment, — which has re-enlisted in a body 
for three years longer. 

I brought home from the field thirty veterans, who have 
been in five hard-fought battles, besides several skirmishes. We 
took into the service, when our company first went out, one hun- 
drcn and ten men, and now have thirty left. 

1 have been in the battles of Shiloh, l\'rryville. Stone River, 
Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and we were victorious in 
every one but Chickamauga. T was wounded on the cheek and 
sicle of the head at Missionary Ridge. On the eighth of this 

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month ni_\- company presented me with a hnc sword sash and helt. 
The hiU and scahhard of the sword are partictdarl_\- handsome. 
I should be glad to recei\e a letter from \()n, should esteem 
it a great favor, and would answer it without delay, (live my 
love to Princess and the bal)ies. 1 remain, as ever, 

^"our affectionate cousin, 

T. EtiGKNi-: TiLLcrrsoN.^ 



Ml-;S. THOMAS J. A.XDKKSOX TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Fehruar^■ 16, 18(14. 

Dear Princie: — 1 received your g(Jod letter of tlie 7th 
tilt., also the one sent lue by your brother. You kiudl\ mani- 
fest much concern on account of mv health which I dul\- a})- 
preciate. * * * Last winter when _\'ou were here 1 was con- 
vinced that }our disease was of a nervous and pulnujuary char- 
acter, and ]5art(^ok more of the f(irmer than the latter. If vou 
will adopt a rule not to becoiue excited, you will soon be much 
stronger than you are. You are weak and hence easily excited, 
but you possess much firnmess and determination. ''■'• * * 

I can buv linen here as low as 50 cents a yard, but it is so 
inferior [ hardlv know what use could be made of it. The en- 
closed sera]:) is a sample of our 75-cent linen, and is considered 
verv chea]) at that. It is poor enough. The scrap enclosed is 
a sample of unbleached muslin that sells for 45 cents i)er yard 
by the bolt. Linen like the bolt you sent me and for which I 
thank you very much, is not in our market. 

1 wish \-ou could hear Lugene, who is now home on fur- 
lough, describe his adventures among the "secesh." Whenever 
the troojjs have encam])ed any length of time, lie has made 
friends aiu<.'ng the rebel women, ])articularly the girls. Shoulder- 
straps with them you may know, go a great way. These women, 
whose liusbands and brothers were then in the Rebel arni\-. in- 
vited him to their houses, got U]) dinners for him, and showed 

1 Capt. Tillotson. born in Marion. Ohio. October 18. 1S41, i.s a pros- 
perous, infliipntial hardware merchant in the city of eiiarleston. 111. TTe 
was united in marriag-e to Miss Carrie M. Oillette. (a native of Cianville. 
Ohio), in Oovins;-ton. Ind.. March 5. ISfiS. They have no children. 



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him every attention. Perliaps it was policy for them to do so,, 
for our armies had overrun their country. Lyman says that he 
has often been invited by Southern ladies to dine at their houses. 

Any man found at home old or young, willing to take the 
oath of allegiance, was given "protection papers" by our officers, 
and thereafter his property and that of his family was exempt 
from seizure. 

If the Germans make war on Denmark, will you have to 
leave Hamburg? 1 search the papers every day for German war 
news. 

That you are having a pin made for me Princie is quite a 
surprise. You will please find enclosed some of Clay's and 
Virgil's hair, and I should like some of yours and James' put 
in. You have no idea how much the necklace pleased Cora.^ 
She says she will always keep it because it contains some of 

her mama's hair, and some of yours. Tell M , the new 

cushion she sent me is now by my side on the window sill. 
Grandma v/on't let any one use it but herself. Visitors ask, 
"Did that little thing work that nice cushion?" And I say, 
"Yes she did." Hattie, who is still up and around, sends love. 

Your afifectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio, February i6, 1864. 

i\Iv DEAR Princess: — Ten o'clock at night finds me just 
beginning an answer to your two good long letters, after spending 
the whole evening in Les ]Miserables, by Victor Hugo. You have 
of course read this work, which is now exciting considerable in- 

1 Orrel Cora Spaulding', daughter of Lyman, and Orrel Eliza Isadora 
Anderson Spaulding, was born in Marion. O., Sunday Feb. 26, 1854. Her 
mother dying March 11, 1854, she was taken and reared by her grand- 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Anderson. She was united in marriage 
to Benjamin F. Mouser. in Pleasant Hill, Mo., October 28, 1873. She died 
Monday July 30, 1877, at the home of her husband's parents in Washing- 
ton C. H.. Ohio, and was buried in the Marion cemetery. She was finely 
educated, a musician of rare promise, and a young woman of high char- 
acter, fit to adorn any station in life. 

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terest in the literary world. 1 have just finished the second book, 
and like it pretty well. 

How do you like Hannah Thurston? The American people 
like it fairly well, but I do not think much of it. There are two 
strong characters represented in the heroine, so o])])osite and 
different that both could hardly reside in one person. The hero 
in my opinion is an ideal Bayard Taylor. I wish your criti- 
cism of this novel. Will James tell me what he thinks of it? 

Hattie F. has just written you a long letter 1 believe. Mary 
Williams will write you very soon. I was confident I had al- 
luded in my last to Cora's necklace. She likes it very much, as 
we all do, and values it highly. She tells me that I shall never 
wear it. Little Mary's furs must be very pretty. Cora has a new 
set, mufif and cape, spotted gray and white. 

I thank you very much for the nice collars and gloves. Your 
brother Selsor said that he brought over some lace, but didn't 
know who it was for. You said nothing about it in your letter. 
He thought it was for me. but concluded not to deliver it till he 
heard from you. 

Eugene is with us nov/. Looks quite fine and soldier-like in 
his uniform. Kiss Mary and James T. for me. "Jdie rest are 
all in bed where I must go. So good night. 

Your sister, 

AxxiK E. A.' 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSO.V. 

Marion, Ohio, March ist. 1864. 

My DEAR Son : — Your letter of the 6th ult. came to hand 
yesterday. * * * j learned a few days ago through Mr. 

1 Annie .Elizabeth Anderson. clau,ghter of Thoma.s j. and Nancy Dun- 
levy Anderson, was born in Marion, Wednesday, March 4, 1840. She was 
educated in Marion, was a member of the M. E. Church, and took a deep 
interest in charitable, religious and patriotic undertakings. She loved society, 
but was devoted to her home and famil.v. She was united in marriage by 
the Rev. J. W. Bushong (a relative.) M. E. Minister of Kansas City, to 
William F. Fahs, Wednesday, Sept. fi, ],S71. at Pleasant Hill, Mo. She died 
at Forest City, Mo., (where her husband was in business as a merchant), 
April 26, 1872, and was buried in the Marion Cemetery. She possessed a 
lovely disposition and noble character, and was a ministering angel in sick- 
ness and suffering. 

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Frank Campbell,' that Mr. R. X. Taylor" had sold his wife's 
portion of the old home farm of the late David Miller, to Mr. 
John Justice, for $7,900. Justice is Campbell's brother-in-law. 
The farm contained about 250 acres, and sold low. My brother 
John Anderson was offered $40 per acre for his farm, but would 
not take it. I think he was wise in not selling. I advised him 
not to sell. 

1 shall see W in a few days, and do the best I can ; 

but fear 1 shall be unsuccessful. He is not dishonest in my 
opinion, but lacks calculation and management. 1 have not yet 
rented the River Farm; all the others are engaged. Isaiah An- 
derson^ gets the west pasture of the Old Prairie l^'arm. Josiah 
Hedges takes the Deal Farm for three years, his brother W. C. 
becoming his surety. Bob Mitchell keeps the 640-acre farm, 
paying the same as heretofore, and the taxes in addition. ()ur 
taxes are very high, but the government must be sustained. 

The people that is the Union people, are almost unanimously 
in favor of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln. The soldiers in the 
army are all for him. 

Enlisting for the army is now very lively. In a few weeks 
we will have the best army in the held the world ever saw. We 
are determined to crush the Rebellion this summer. The Rebels 
are conscripting every man that can bear arms. In April, May 
and June, you may look out for hard fighting, if the Rebels do 
not give up. 

When the rebellion is put down, our government will drive 
the French out of Mexico, for the American people will not con- 
sent to Maximilian's Empire* on our southwest border. This 
mav be relied on. God bless you and your dear family. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

' A wealthy Marion county stock-breeder, and land owner. 

-' Son of David Taylor of Columbus, and nephew of Gov. Brough. He 
came into the possession of two lar.^e fortunes, one by his wife, the other 
by his father. 

=' Son of a. prominent citizen of Fostoria, O., and nephew of R. "W. Shaw- 
han, the millionaire of Tiffin, Ohio. As our currency (during the war) de- 
preciated in value, everything the farmer had to sell rose in price; but 
strange as it may seem, farms could not be rented for any greater sum 
than before the war. 

■* Maximilian and his generals were afterwards barbarously put to death 
by the cruel lialf-savage Mexicans. 

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MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March i, 1864. 

My DEAR Princess:— ='= - * IMrs. Alaggie Pollock's 
husband is dead; died last week at his home in Logan county. 
She is feeling gloomy and must be very unhappy. Poor girl! 
So young a widow. Mrs. Fribley's little girl was two weeks old 
last Friday. She thinks of calling it Annie — after me. Both 
are quite well. ■■- * ''■■ 

A good many of our people are now going to Clevela»d 
to attend the Sanitary Fair, which will no doubt be a grand 
exhibition. 1 should like to go never having been in that city, 
and I wish you and James were here to accompany me. The 
people here donated many things, and my contributions, ( sev- 
eral small articles), went with the rest. 1 gave Mrs. Wildbahn 
the collar you sent her. She thought it beautiful and returns 
many thanks. 

Your affectionate sister. 

Annie. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, ^larch i, 1864. 

My DEAR Son : — Yesterday we received your very kind 
letter of 6 February. * * * It has been very healthy here 
this winter. My own sickness in the early winter is almost the 
only case I have known. Indeed I have seldom heard the bell 
toll for months. 

We are having another great Sanitary Fair at Cleveland. 
Annie made some fancy articles for it on which she did a good 
deal of work. She wishes to attend, and I thought it would 
be a source of great information, but her father does not see 
it as we do, and she will not go. Those who attended the San- 
itary Fair at Cincinnati say the one given at Cleveland sur- 
passes it in beauty and elegance, though T presiune the receipts 
will fall far short of it. People can't give all flic fiiiic, even 
though the object be most meritorious. 

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Dear Princie : What shall I say to you ? Well my dear 
child 1 will say, be of good cheer. "God tempers the wind to- 
the shorn lamb," and he will care for you. 1 am now having 
very strong faith in your behalf — faith in God's mercy. I be- 
lieve He will lead you, gently it may be, through the deep waters 
of affliction, nor suffer the whelming waves to bear you down. 
How I should like to take care of and watch over you, but 
as this cannot be, I submit, and trust in Him wdio doeth all 
things well. 

Mrs. John Bain^ has got back to town. I met her yester- 
day. She very kindly inquired about you all. Mrs. Kate God- 
man,2 and others, did the same. Mr. A. is waiting to mail this 
and I must stop. So good-by dear Princie. 

Affectionatelv vours. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 15, 1864. 

My dear Sox : — I think when the warm weather sets in 
Princie will be better. ''- * * Old Mr. John R. Knapp'^ died 
a few days ago. He was hardly sick at all. * '^' ''''' 

When was here he said that he was going away 

to attend Commercial School, but he has not yet left home. 
When his guardian was here a few days ago, he stated that 
he wished him to go and had given him money, but that he had 

put off going. Mr. considered it very important, as only 

a few months would elapse before the young man must take 

1 A wealthy, charitable lady, nee Monnett, who.se husband, a Marion mer- 
chant, settled in New York City. 

= Wife of Mr. Henry C. Godman the wealthy shoe manufacturer. Mr. 
G. who is now (1903) living in Columbus, was born in Marion June 14. 1832. 
graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, was admitted to the bar, and 
practiced law in Marion as a partner of William Z. Davis, now Supreme 
Judge of Ohio, for a good many years. He was a good lawyer; and as a 
manufacturer amassed a large fortune He is noted for his many benefac- 
tions and charities. His wife died Feb. 14, 1901; and on Wednesday. July 
1, 1903, he was married in Columbus, Ohio, to Mrs. Cora Glover Flora, a 
widow — as lovely as she is handsome. 

=" Knapp, a crusty, disagreeable old man, was postmaster in Marion four 
years, — 1845-49. He had two sons, John R. and Russell, who were printers 
and editors, popular citizens, and much respected. John R. Knapp, Jr., 
married a Miss Kennedy, a sister of Mrs. George H. Busby. His brother- 
Russell died of smallpox. 

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■charge of his property, and never having kept l)Ooks. he wonld 
be ill-prepared to do his own business. '■■- ''■' ''■' A set of fel- 
lows I am informed get around him and hatter him, and coax 
him not to attend school. They drive around, visit the adjoin- 
ing towns, attend balls, taking their girls with them, and he 
no doubt from all I hear pays more than his own bills. Don't 

let him know that Mr. has said a word to me on the 

subject, or he would lose his influence over him, if he has not 
already done so. 1 think you could induce him to change his 
course. I sometimes think of writing to him myself, but he would 
probably think it none of mv business, which is a fact. I feel 
however an interest in his welfare. 

Air. Wesley Hedges^ offers his farm for sale, has the 
Southern fever, and thinks of removing to Tenn. Mr. and 
Mrs.- R. X. Taylor have it also I understand. The favorable 
reports about that section of the country, made by our soldiers 
that have returned, is causing quite a spirit of emigration. For 
my part I think our people had better remain at home until 
peace has been established, for there are many influential Rebels 
who have not taken the oath of allegiance whose titles and con- 
veyances Uncle Samuel may not respect. Some of the finest 
plantations in the South, now owned by those who have taken 
a prominent part in the Rebellion, will be confiscated and sold 
by our government after the war is over to aid in defraying 
the war debt : and those who buy farms so sold, will of course 
get good titles. 

One of Mr. R. N. Taylor's brothers is now raising cot- 
ton in the state of Arkansas on a plantation which hc'"' has leased 
from the government. Farming here is now attended with many 
haidships and difficulties, as it is almost impossible to hire farm- 
hands, for all good men without profitable employment, and many 
others, are in the army ; but we have still a superabundance 
of vagabonds and thieves. 

Eugene, after enjoying his furlough thirty days, yesterday 
returned to the seat of war. His face is not at all disfigured 
by the wound he received, which was only a scratch by a minie 



1 A cousin of Mrs. James H. Anderson. 

2 A sister of Mrs. James H. Anderson. 

3 Col. E. L. Taylor, of Columbus, Ohio. 

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ball ; but it was enough to remind liini that a slight variation 
from its course would have cost him his life. 

Your afifectionate mother. 

P. S. — Old Mr. l>aker,i the founder of Marion, was taken 
suddenly sick, and is very low. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 15, 1864. 

My dear Son : — Your letter of the 20th ult. came duly 
to hand. You are at a loss to know why farms do not rent 
for more than they did v/hen you were here. That is not hard 
to account for. Most men that are fit to rent to, have farms 
of their own, and now laborers are so scarce that men fear to 
undertake farming on a large scale, and content themselves with 
small farms, the work on wdiich they do themselves. Many of 
our farmers are old men, the young farmers of enterprise hav- 
ing gone to the war. The young men at home are in business 
for themselves or too trifling to work. The result is farming 
is running behind. If the farms were all in grass, I could 
rent them to much better advantage. I wish the Rolling Plain 
was well "underbrushed." If the River Farm was well "under- 
l)rushed," it would rent readily for more money than can be got 
for it as it is. 

I have allowed W for work done on the house he oc- 
cupies. — putting in a new brick chimney, repairing the floors, 

1 Hon. Eber Baker, bom April 27, 1780, in Maine, came to the site of 
Marion, March 4, 1821, bought land, and laid out the town April 3. 1822. 
He was a representative in the State legislature in 1826-27. He was a 
large, coarse featured, pot-bellied, amiable, honest, generous man. slow 
of movement and speech, and inclined to take life in an easy, rather indolent 
way. He was in the habit of signing bonds and notes as surety, and was 
generally in need of money. His first wife Lydia Baker, the mother of 
his children, a good, kind-hearted woman, died June 24, 1843, and Eber, 
the Founder, passed out October 6, 1864. His children were George W., 
the Baptist preacher, Charles the man of leisure, Lincoln called "Link," 
who hated exertion, Mehitable C, who married Dick Sargent the tailor. 
Elizabeth B., who married Alvin C. Priest, an unworthy customer, and 
Lydia, the best educated and brighest of the brood, who married Hon. 
Ozias Bowen, Each of the children probably inherited a very small fortune. 

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the porch, and the roof. 1 have also paid him for rejiairing; 
fences, and stiH lie has not done as much as I wanted him to do. 

It is hard to i^et rails made at $1.25 per hundred. \V has 

1,000 new rails made, hut they are not yet in fence. 

L.ast week he gave me a chattel mortg'ajj^'e on 220 shee]) and 
other live stock to secure what he owes. 1 hied it in the office 
of the township clerk. Roliert Mitcheirs wife, and child, died 
four weeks since. 

Your father. 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 29th, 1864. 

Dear Princie: — I have received yours of the 4th inst. I 
am glad the children (of whom I think a great deal), keep so 
well. seems to possess every quality to make her use- 
ful and ornamental in society ; cjuick wit, great vivacity, energy, 
winning ways, aptness to learn. After all the dear child will not 
be exempt from the crosses and trials of life. She needs in my 

opinion kind and gentle training. has I think a diiTerent 

though not inferior grade of intellect. I believe in fact he has 
a deeper. When here. I observed his thoughtful countenance 
and thought I saw great lirmness in his coiuposition, and a mine 
of mental wealth that training would properly develop. 

If I were to rear a family again. I think I should enforce 
obedience in softest tones and gentlest manner. Praising a child's 
good conduct does much more good than censuring his bad. 
Children like grown people are easier coaxed than driven. You 
are now probably saying, "Mother, you have not reared such per- 
fect children as to justify you in offering counsel and advice, 
or in laying down rules for the government of children." I am 
well aware of my failures and deficiencies, but exjx'rience has 
taught me many things. And }-ct I must insist that I have 
raised some of the best children in the world : Init I lake no 
credit to myself. They are endowed by nature with right dis- 
positions, and riod enabled me to rear them so as not to mar tlu^ 
same. 

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James, I was ai^reeably surprised to tincl your efforts in 
behalf of the U. S. Sanitary Commission so successful. But 
won't it make the (iermans think that we are not able to take 
care of our sick and wounded soldiers? I am too proud to 
have them think this. Still their contributions will have a good 
eft'ect, for they will have a tendency to cement more closely the 
ties of friendship between the people of the two countries. In 
your report to our government, you will no doubt give the Ger- 
mans in and about Hamburg a generous puff'. Your father just 
came in. and says 1 must finish this letter in a hurry. So I 
must stop, llatlie is here, and sends much love to all. I have 
more I would like to say, but it will keep. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. ELIZA I'.K'PIl W. SHERWOOD TO J. II. ANDERSON. 

Metroi'oi.itan Fair, tor the U. S. Sanitary Commission, 

New York. January 4, 1804. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consii! at Hamburg: 
My de.-vr Sir: — We ask you to use your influence among the patriotic 
Americans near you, and among those foreigners who sympathize witli 
our cause, to send us contributions for the Metropolitan Fair which is 
to take place on the '28th of March. The enclosed circulars are com- 
prehensive statements of our plan of the Fair, and we hope that those 
who, like yourself, are away from the sight of sick and suffering soldiers, 
who have 'm\\ tlie rumors of war to pain them and not its horrible 
reality, will feel all the ties of home and country strong upon them, 
and exert themselves to send aid and comfort to those at home who are 
bearing the heat and burden of the day. 

Respectfully yours, 

Elizabeth W. Sherwood, 
Secretary of the Metropolitan Fair. 



OFFICERS OF Tlll<: I'. S. S.^NITARV COMMISSION TO JAMES IT. 

ANDERSON. 

U. S. S.'\.nitary Commission, 
New York, January 28, 1864. 
Dear Sir : — It is considered very important that in each European 
city there should be a central point where all contributions for the Met- 
ropolitan Fair, especially works of art, can be received and packed as 

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■safely as possible and forwarded to New York by sleanicr witbout delay. 
The expenses of packing and forwarding will be paid by ibe Jvxecutive 
Board of tbe Fair/ and it is reqnested that all unnecessary expense be 
avoided. 

Von are earnestly requested as our Consul tn take charge of thjs labor 
for us. It will be a great service rendered to tbe Sanitary Commission, 
whose labor of love we know our countrymen, everywiiere, fully ajipre- 
ciate. 

Mrs. H.xmilton Fish, Mus. J. Sturges, 

I'rcs. Metropolitan Fair. Chairman .Irt Com. 

Henry W. Bei.low.s, I'rcs. 



J.VMES R. M DONALD TO J.\M1<:S II. .\XI)I:k.S( )X. 

New York, February 8, 1864. 

Dear Sir.' — This will be handed to you by my friend. Col. Julian 
Allen of this city, who j)ur|)oscs visiting your city on a business that 
he will explain to you more fully. In recommending him to yoiu" kind 
attention, I may add that Col. Allen," though still in the service of our 
government will present himself to you as a pri\-ate citizen. His object 
in visiting Germany is one that has tlie hearty suppnrt of several in- 
fluential and patriotic gxnUlemen of this country, and all that you can do 
for him towards forwarding his business will be duly ac\'nf)wledged on 
this side. Very truly yours, 

IaMES R. Mt DoN.M.l).''' 



COL. jULi.\N .\lli<:n to j.\mi:s ii. .\:\I)i:rsox. 

My dear Con.sul: — As a citizen of the U. S. I take i)leasure in 
offering you my assistance in aid of the Metropolitan Fair, to take place 
in New York, the 28th, inst. You will also please receive as my humble 
donation at this time to the Fair, thirty six metallic photographic views. 
Some of the citizens of Hamburg whom I have seen to-day, made in- 

' Thoug-h hundreds of packages were sent to the Metropolitan Fair, from 
the Hamburg Consulate, the Executive Board was not called on to pay one 
cent for packing, that I ever heard of. 

- Though Col. Allen's mission was secret, his oliject was to transport 
young men from Germany, and Poland, to New "S'ork. and Boston, after 
■securing their agreement to enter our military ser\i'o. He was very suc- 
cessful. These forei.gners generally entered the service as the sul)stitutes 
of drafted men. and the priee received including bounties was enormous. 
Many of these ai'e now receiving pensions, and pose as tlie Nation's pa- 
triotic defenders. 

■' McDonald's home was Hamburg, wliere he was for years IT. S. Vice 
Consul. 

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quiries of me (liaving heard that I was the Secretary of tlie meeting lield 
}-csterday at the Merchants' Exchange), concerning the Fair, and promised 
to send articles for the Fair to your care/ 

Respectfully and truly yoiu-s, 
Hanihurg, March 5, 1804 Jitlian Allen. 



THE DKI'ARTMENT OF STATE TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 

Washington, April 7, 18G4. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq.^ 

U. S. Consul at Hamburg, 
Sir.' Your dispatches from No. 244 to No. -270. both inclusive, have 
been received. The proceedings of the benevolent friends in Hamburg of 
the soldiers of the United States, in contributing generously for the relief 
of the sick and wounded in the hospitals, through the medium of the 
Managers of the Metropolitan Fair, in New York, have been read with 
much interest. I am, sir, your obedient servant. 

F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO J.\MES H. ANDERSON. 

Department of State, 

Washington, April 22, 1864. 
James H. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg. 
Sir: — Your dispatch No. 273, reporting the cnntiiiued success of your 
labors in behalf of the Metropolitan Fair, has been received. The De- 
partment is pleased to observe the heartiness with which you have en- 
gaged in the service of this charitable enterprise, and gratified to learn 
with what promptness and liberality your appeals have been responded 
to by the men and women of Hamburg. 

I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward. 
Assistant Secretary. 



MRS. ELTZAliETJl \V. SHERWOOD TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Metropolitan Fair, for the U. S. Sanitary Commission, 
No. 2 Great Jones Street. 

New York, April 27, 18G4. 
Dear Sir: — The ladies of the Metropolitan Fair Association desire me 
to say that they feel very much indebted to you for the great interest 

^ Many such letters and contributions, some far more valuable, were 
received at the U. S. Con.sulate at Hamburg, 

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j'ou have taken in that enterprise. Your consignments have all arrived,, 
and have sold advanlagcously. At present the press of husiness is so 
great, and the confusion resulting from such an immense undertaking so- 
great that I cannot ascertain precisely how much your consignments, 
brought. 

You will he glad to hear that wc have made a million of dollars. 
I enclose our Treasurer's receipt for the moneys sent by you. It was so 
long a statement that the ordinary blank could not be used. Please 
thank all those who have helped us, in our name, and in that of the 
relieved soldiers. 

The Art Committee will in time apprise you of the result of the 
picture sales. I think all those with conditions attached will be returned, 
as we have taken nothing with conditions. 

I shall have great pleasure in sending you a bound copy of our 
little newspaper. The immense pressure on its columns prevented all 
your contributions being advertised, but we are none the less grateful. 

Please consider the newspaper a gift from the ladies of our committee. 

And assuring you of our gratitude to you. and all in Hamburg who. 
■ have helped our good cause, believe me, with much respect. 

Yours truly, 
Elizabeth \V. Sherwooi). 
' Secretary Metropolitan Pair} 

James H. Andei-:sox. Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Hamburg, etc. etc. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio, April ii. i8(')4- 
Dear Princie : — I am so anxiou.s aliout yoti. I think of 
you almost all the time. I trust your accouchement has already 
taken place, and that you are now feelino- hetter. 

We received a letter from James of the 19th ult., together 
witlT a copy of his letter to Mrs. E. W. Sherwood, Sec'y of the 
Metropolitan Fair in New York, and various other matters and 
things, all of which are very interestino-. Indeed I think he has 
done very well. I should never have had the courage to ask 
for one cent. I should have looked for this answer: Vonr rich, 
proud, and powerful nation, can take care of its own sick and 
ivonndcd. And so it can. and do it better than any other nation 



II devoted much time and labor to this great Fair, and to the Fairs, 
held in Philadelphia, St. Louis, etc. The letters and papers ,n my t'Os- 
session relating to them would make a small volume. 

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ever did. liiit after all these donations from foreigners in foreign 
countries, especially from the Germans, will have a good effect, 
and tend to strengthen and cement those bonds of friendship 
which we are all anxious to foster and maintain. 

If it were not for the war on their own hands, many of 
the Germans w^ould no doubt feel it a privilege to give, as 
thousands of their own countrymen will be the recipients of 
such bounties. Indeed foreigners share more largely in the 
distribution of the Sanitary Stores than native Americans, for 
obvious reasons. The native citizen usually has friends and rel- 
atives who supply his wants. Indeed the demands on the ex- 
press companies, especially after a battle, so far exceed the ca- 
pacity of the railroads of the country that stores contributed for 
the comfort of our soldiers are often a long time in reaching 
them. At one time we sent Lyman twenty pounds of butter, 
and it laid here several days before it was put aboard the train. 

Our Sanitary Fairs are undoubtedly very good things: and 
they show the world what we are able and willing to do. I 
have ..not been informed of the receipts of the Brooklyn Fair ; 
but the Cincinnati footed up $222,000, the Cleveland $110,000, 
and at smaller Fairs, Chicago, Indianapolis, and others, the ag- 
gregate was a large sum. And these contributions are all made 
without any one seeming to feel the burden. Fuough of this. 

Susie De Wolfe^ called here this afternoon, and kindly in- 
quired about your health. Mr. Anderson, who was at Mr. R. N. 
Taylor's a few days ago found his family well. His wife had 
driven that day ten miles over muddy roads to employ a girl 
for housework. 

Well Princie. Mr. and Mrs. (Mary) M , of U. S, have 

parted at last. Long ago I thought it might occur. There 
is something terrible in such a proceeding. A c|uarrel, an im- 
happy life, and a parting, tell it all. Well I believe he was a 
bad man. His debauchery I am informed jjrecipitated the final 
separation. 

Mr. F. V. Fowler I understand is going to Upper San- 
dusky to live, and will occupy your mother's house. It may 

1 MiR. Su.'ian Bu.sby De Wolfe, the lovely daughter of Major Geo. H. 
Busby, ;in(l wife of Simon E. De Wolfe, was born In Marion, July 27, 
:1833, and died Aug. 31. 1877. 

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be better for his wife's health ; she wiU liave less care and less 
to do. The house will l)e in careful bauds.' 

We do not hear of any new cases of varioloid. Its ap|)ear- 
auce here was in a mild form. Love to Mary and little James. 
I pray God to encircle you and yours in the arms of his love 
and niercv. Affectionately yours, 

N. a; 



TnoMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMl^S H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Onio. April 12, 1864. 

jMy dear Son : — The River I-'arm is not yet rented, nor is 
the little place at the mouth of the Little Sandusky. The other 
places are rented for one year only, except the Deal Farm, which 
I rented for three years to Josiah Hedges. r)oli. Mitchell had 
agreed to take the 640-acre place (the Rolling Plain) for three 
years; but his wife and two children dying, he decided to quit 
housekeeping, and at his urgent request, I wrote the lease for 
one instead of three years. This place will always rent well. 
and I think at the end of the year — April ist — we will be 
able to rent it for a better price. I wish it was "underbrushed" 
and all in pasture. David Harpster- has spoken to me about 

1 This fatal move was the beginning of Mr. F. F. Fowler's downfall. 
When he moved to town, there were probably two or three richer men 
in Wyandot county, not more. In thi-ee years he was substantially bank- 
rupt. He was enticed into enterprises that soon wrought his financial 
ruin. His large farms, flocks and herds, bank-stock, and other property 
were soon swept away. Then the family went South and settled on the 
low lands of Arkansas county, Ark., where all soon died of malarial poison 
but one sickly daughter Bessie, and Mr. Fowler himself, who returned to 
Ohio to die. Mr. Fowler's daughter Bessie A., born January 7, 1860, mar- 
ried Thomas H. Hutchinson of Arkansas, a successful planter. He died 
August 6. 1892, leaving Bessie and two bright, fine looking children, Mabel 
C. and Howard F. Hutchinson, who now reside near their plantation in 
Stuttgart. Arkansas. F. F. Fowler was born January 8. 1818. and died 
June 7, 1897, on the magnificent estate of his brother C R Fowler, in 
Wyandot county, Ohio. Mabel C. is not only handsome but highly cul- 
tured, having received three University degrees. She was born Sept. 13. 
1880;' her brother March 1, 1887; and their father March 31. 1843. The 
pedigree of the Fowler Family will be found in the October No. 1902, of 
The Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly; and the Fowler pedigree and 
coat-of-arms, in the October No. 1902, of The American Heraldic Journal. 
Both magazines are published in Columbus, Ohio. 

2 David Harpster died October 29, 1898, leaving a fortune of nearly a 
million. He was a citizen of great influence in Ohio. He was at one 

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rcntiii<4' the ])astui'c's on the River Farm. I i)refer however to 
rent the whole ])lace to one man, but will do the best I can with it. 

I was much pleased with yours of the 19th ult., and with 
the enclosures therein, copies of despatches, printed matter, &c. 
Hie letters are well and ably written. The German papers, and 
the account of your doings in behalf of the Sanitary Fairs, and 
the London paper describing the "Great Calamity," have all been 
received They greatly interested me. 

( Hn- friends in the army including Louis F. Raichley are 
all well, and doing well. Lou. has accepted a position in the 
Quarter Master's Department at Knoxville, Tenn., under our 
friend Col. Joseph ¥. Boyd,^ at a salary of $2,500 \)cv annum. 



time Presidential Elector, and was sever'al years president of the Ohio 
Wool Gr-owors' Association. He left two daushtors, Sarah A. and Iva. 
Sarali tlie eldest, is the wife of Col. Cyrus Sear.s of Harpster, O., a man 
of character and varied attainments He was a gallant soldier during 
the Civil War, and was awarded by the government a Medal of Honor for 
(extraordinary courage at the battle of luka. David Harpster's second 
daughter Iva, married William Bones, a wholesale merchant-prince of N. 
Y. City. They have large possessions in Wyandot county. O., but now reside 
in Wat*ertown, N Y. She was a bright, cultured, attractive girl, and is to- 
day one of the splendid women of the country. It is a common remark 
that she has inherited her father's great ability. From an artist's stand- 
poiiil slic was never strictly beautiful, but so cliarming that many con- 
sidered hc^r th(e loveliest of women. In hi'f own language lier fatlier "was 
hoin near Milford, I'a., on the 28th of December. 1816. He accompanied 
his iiaients to Wayne county, O., when a small child. I think Maj. Anthony 
Bowsher brought him to nowsherville, Wyandot county, C. a year or two 
later. He died Oct. 29, 1898. My sister, Mrs. Sarah A Sears, was born 
Au.gust 3, 1841. I was Introduced into this lovely world Oct. 9th. 1846. I 
thank you for thinking of my father. The nice things you say of him 
touch my heart. My father's early life as you can guess, was neither an 
easy nor an idle one. Ho really deserved more during his life than fell to 
liim." 

David Harpster died on his large estate, in Wyandot county, Oliio. in 
an elegant villa, near the town of Harpster, of which he was the founder. 

' Note. John and Mary F'ulton Boyd emigrated from Castle Rock, Don- 
'donderry county, Ireland, in 1772, and settled in Westmoreland county. Pa. 
'I'hey were Scotch-Irish, and had three sons who were Presbyterian preacliers. 
Their youngest son, Joseph, 1792-1847, settled on a farm in Pleasant town- 
ship, Marion county, Ohio, in 1817, several years before the organization 
-of either the township or county. He was a farmer, a school teacher, a 
.lustice of the peace, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Joseph 
Pulton Boyd, the youngest son of Joseph, was born on his father's farm 
in Pleasant township, attended the country school, and Uleyate's school in 
Marion, and later the Marion Academy, when Prof. Sheppa^-d, and after- 
w'ards Dr. J. M. Christian were at the head of it. He went to school one 
.year in CMncinnati. and then entered the service of J. S. Reed & Co., 



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Lyman Si)aul(liiit;- has liccn promoti'd to [hv c-ai)lainc\- ol" To. (i, 
12 1 St regiment, ( ). \ . L 

( )ur old friend hd)er liaker is stiU eonlint'd to his l)e(h and 
quite low. Hon. ( )zias I'.owen has ni()ve(l into liis mansion 
on Kerry's ] liH, — nieknamed (lospel IliH. hy I'at. Walhiee, and 
others. Capt. K. J lardy is going- into the l)anking l)nsiness again, 
at the old stand, witli Mr. E. G. Allen as easliier, hut he ean 
never regain the eonhdenee of the people as he onee had it. 1 
advise you to clear and drain \()ur farms. l)es|)ite llie high 
price of lahor, 1 don't helieve you could invest your money to 
hetter advantage. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



inercliants nrul l)finkers in Marion. He commenced iTis long- railroad .ser- 
\ii-f In \x'>:'.. nii<l(>r his fiiend Oen. James H. Godman, Pres. of the B. and 
I. li. Iv. Ol). Mo was afterwards appointed CJeneial Freiglit and 'ricket 
Agent of this road — office at linlianapolis. in ISSit lie was given the same 
position (in tlic L. <*i N. K. U. office at Louisville. In 1861 he entered 
the mililar.v service witli the rank of captain, and served on Ilic staff of 
Oen. A. M. McC'ook, from October, 1861, to October. ISd:',. meanlinic bi'itig 
IM'omoled to li(>ulenant colonel. He was in llie battles of Shiloh. I'err.v- 
ville, Stone Kiver, and Chickamanga. In a letter to nic ditcd .May 17. 
1902, Gen. J. F. Boyd sa.vs: "'Louis F. Ilaicliley was with inc in INCl-'i. 
in the Atlanta campaign, aiid in North Carolina, as ehlcf clcik .ind cashier. 
He -was one of the nnost skillful and exact accountants I cvit nut. lie 
had char.ge as cashier of the disbursement of al)out two millions of dol- 
lars, and in th(> final settleinenL of m.v accounts which wiM-e l;irgcly in his 
hands, and for the correctness of which he was rcsiionsible, 1 cani(> out 
with a difference of only $1.38. 

"1 had some novel experiences during the war. Fell into the hands of 
Wheeler's Cavalry soon after the battle of Chickamauga, liax-eled two 
■weeks with them while they were on a raid in the r(>ar of the Federal 
lines as their only prisoner, and was then sent to T>ibby Prison, from 
which I was fortmiate enough to make my escape in February, 18fi4. and 
returned to duty." In March, 1SC4, lioyd was assigned to duty as Chief 
Quarti'i-master 2;!d Army Corps, and later as Chief Quartermaster of the 
Department and Army of the ( >ln'o, commanded by Gen. J. M. Schofield. He 
was transferred with the Army uf the Ohio to North Carolina in February, 
1865, appointed Chief Quartermaster of the Department of North Cai-olina, 
and promoted to Colonel and Brevet-Brigadier Gener;d, 

He resigned his commission in March, 1866. and r(>turned to the service 
of the L. & N. U, R. He was superintendent of the M, & O. railroad 
from 1867 to 1871. and of the St. D. & S. E. Railroad in 1872. • His present 
position as Superintendent of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, he has held 
since 1873, He was a man of great courage, and one of the most useful 
officers in the service during the Civil War. As a railroad official, and as 
a citizen, few men in our liroad land stand higher than Gen. J. F. Boyd. 
He is a credit to the township and the county, and the State in which 
he first saw the light. He resides with his family in (^hamberburg. Pa. 



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MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, April 25, 1864. 

My dear Brother: — We received the Hamburg news- 
paper, containing the announcement of the birth, on the 23d. 
lilt, of your second son.^ Though the paper was a month old, 
we were happy to get it. We trust that mother and child are 
doing well, and anxiously await letters. 

I must tell you of the dreadful accident that happened to 
one of our old and much respected citizens, Mr. Isaac Mouser, 
who lived east of town a mile or so. A week ago yesterday he 
was walking on the railroad track, and was run over by a train 
of cars, and instantly killed. His sudden and horrible death 
was a great shock not only to his family but to us all. The 
loss to the community is great, and to his family irreparable. 
This is not the only shocking accident that I shall mention. 
Old jMr. Graham, father of the Rev. John Graham, the pastor 
of the M. E. Church here during 1852-3 was thrown from a 
train of cars near town a few days since and killed. A Ger- 
man, living not far away, bought a horse of father a few days, 
ago, and while taking him home was kicked and killed. He 
had onlv got as far as Main street, when the horse kicked his. 
head so as to kill him. These appalling accidents occurred with- 
in a week. Truly 

"Life is but a strife, 
'Tis a bubble, 'tis a dream." 

The Independent Com]xanies in Ohio are all called out by the- 
Governor for one hundred days, for the defence of the State. 
Our town will be nearly depopulated. 

A sanguinary battle has been fought on Red river, in which 
several Marion county men \\ere severely wounded, Ijut accord- 
ing to the latest news none were killed. The excitement grow- 
ing out of the war, now^ runs very high, and will probably in- 
crease rather than diminish as the season advances. 

You never speak of the German war — the war waged 
bv Prussia and Austria against little Denmark, on account of 



' Charles Finley Anderson, born March 23.. tS64. in the United States- 
Consulate at Hamburg. 

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Schleswig-Holsteiii, and all we know ahoul it is what wc ylean 
from the newspapers. 

Maximilian' and Mexico a])i)ear to l)e the prinei])al topics 
of conversation in l)oth London and Paris. Napoleon's scheme 
is hy no means popnlar here — far from it — l)nt we are now 



1 Maximilian, Aichduk(> of Austria, an enlightened, progressive prince, 
became emperor of Mexico in 1864, and supported by French bayonets en- 
tered the capital, June 26, 1864. Ho was able to maintain his position 
only by the aid of French troops, which at the solicitation of the United 
States were withdrawn February 5. 1S(!8. from the I'ity of Mexico, and by 
March 1, 1868, Maximilian was left with only a few thousand native troops, 
and a small Austrian contingent. On May 15, 1S68, aided by the treachery 
of Gen. Lopez, the emperor and 8,000 men were captured by the Juarist 
forces at Queretaro. Maximilian, Miramon, and Mejia were tried by a 
pretended court martial, convicted, and on June 19th condemned to be 
shot. Despite the protests of our government, and many European gov- 
ernments, this .sentence was carried out, Miramon and Mejia being stripped 
and shot in the back. Nearly all the leading Mexican generals who had 
taken arms under the Empire, were barbarously executed by the victorious, 
half-savage, cruel Mexicans, under Juarez the Indian leader. Tliese bloody 
and shocking tragedies excited the indignation of many who had sympa- 
thized with the Republicans of Mexico; and the wrath of most of the gov- 
ernments of Europe was so great that diplomatic relations with the so- 
called Mexican Republic were broken off. 

Note. Prince Felix Salm-Salm, who commanded a Union regiment in 
our Civil War, and finally became a brigadier-general, married the youthful 
and charming Miss Agnes Le Clercq of New York, went to Mexico at the close 
of the war. and became aide dc caini). and chief of the household of the 
Emperor, with whom he was captured at Queretaro. The princess Salm- 
Salm. prominent in Maximilian's court, acquired great celebrity by her heroic 
efforts to save the life of the^ Emperor, and the prince her husband. Some 
time after the prince left Mexico, he entered the Prussian service, was in 
the Franco-German war, and was killed at the battle of Gravelotte, Aug. 
18, 1870. The Princess was then not far awa.v, for she was nearly always 
by his side in Mexico, and in the Franco-German campaign. "During the 
American war," says the princess in her very entertaining volume. "I was 
almost always with my husband; I followed him also to Mexico, and was 
not only a mere spectator in the great and sad tragedy enacted there. 
During the last French war I was witii the [German] arm.v from the 
commencement to the end." 

In April and May IHOO, 1 was present as a delegate, and as Vica 
President General of the National Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution, at the National Congress of the Society, at the Waldorf-Astoria 
Hotel in the city of New York. Here I met the princess, and was after- 
wards introduced to her by that brilliant lady, and fluent public speaker, 
Mrs. Donald McLean, regent of the New York City Chapter of the D. 
A. R. It was at a magnificent reception given by the-D. A. R. at Sherry's, 
where the princess was assisting Mrs. McT^ean, and other Daughters in 
receiving. During the ten days I was in the city, we often met at re- 
ceptions, and at the Waldoi'f- Astoria, and Ijecame very good friends. 

She gave me a clear account of the betrayal, captui-c. ti-ial. and execu- 
tion of the unfortunate Emperor, and of lier extraoi-dinary efforts to se- 
cure his pardon or his escape. She told me how she secured her hus- 
band's release. It was certainly a thrilling episode in a woman's life. See 

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engaged in putting down the rebellion, which occupies our time 
and attention to the. exclusion of every other project. I have 
written more than I intended. Love to all. May our Father 
in heaven bless you, and keep you as his own, is the prayer of 

Your sister, 

Annie. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, /\pril 26, 1864. 

Dear Son : — I was very glad to receive a letter from you, 
and a Hamburg (German) newspaper, announcing the birth of a 
son on the 23d ult. Accept my heartfelt congratulations. I 
am very happy to have another grandson. Notify me as soon as 
you have given the boy a name. 

The letter written by you to a copy of which 

you enclose, was read by me with some astonishment. He does 
not know what belongs to a gentleman, or he would not try to 
beg a passage. He is able to pay his way ; and to be treated 
in a kind and friendly way was all that he (a stranger) should 
have expected of you. * * * 

her volume of absorbing interest, issued in 1S75, entitled "Ten Years of My 
Life." 

She made me a present of her portrait — a fine large photograph — 
on the back of which she wrote: 'Presented to my friend Hon. James 
H. Anderson, of Columbus, Ohio, with the fond hope that we may meet 
again. Agnes Salm-Salm. Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, May 2, 1900." 

She gave me her card on which she wrote: "Princess Agnes Salm-Salm, 
2 Karlstrasse, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany." 

Since Prince Salm-Salm's death the princess has resided in Germany, a 
part of the time in Baden, receiving generous annuities from Prussia, from 
the House of Salm-Salm, and from the Emperor of Austria. She cordially 
invited me to visit her at her German villa, which I should be glad to do, 
for I found her refined, cultured, brilliant, and very entertaining. She is a 
linguist, — besides English speaking German, and several other languages 
with great ease and accuracy. The Princess, an intimate friend of the famous 
author Count Leo Tolstoi, is noted for her philanthrophy. There is just a 
trace of shyness in her manner, but she talks entertainingly of her varied 
experiences on battlefields. She was decorated by the Czarina of Russia with 
the Order of the Holy Cross. 

See -also: "My diary in Mexico in 1867, including the last days of the 
Emperor Maximilian; with leaves from the diary of the Princess Salm- 
Salm, etc., by Felix Salm-Salm, general, first aide-de-camp of the house- 
hold of his late majesty the emperor of Mexico. In two volumes. London, 
1868." 

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I find it hard to rent grain farms. 1 wish yours were all 
in pasture. Hands are too scarce to get to work on grain farms 
or elsewhere. I do not know how farms are to be cultivated 
this season, labor is so scarce and high. Money is plenty and 
cheap, but everything else is scarce and dear. Prices in our 
market: Hour $7.50 per bbl., potatoes $1.25 per bu., butter 27 
cents per lb., eggs 18 cents per doz., corn 90 cents per bu., 
hams 18 cents per lb., pork 12 to 15 cents per lb., fresh beef 
15 cents per lb. (per quarter), sugar 17 to 25 cents per lb., 
coffee 45 to 50 cents per lb., tea $1.75 to $2.50 per lb., corn 
meal $1.25 per bu., clover seed $8.00 per bu., timothy $4.00, hay 
$20.00 per ton, labor $2.00 per day, $25.00 to $30.00 per month. 
Clothing is very high. My love to Princess and the children. 

Your father, 

T. T- Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio. April 26, 1864. 

Dear Son : — Our army on Red river, under Gen. Banks, 
"has met with a serious reverse. Capt Coulter of this place had 
a leg shot off, and is a prisoner of war. Marshall Godman was 
in the fight, but escaped I believe. One of the young Laphams 
was wounded. Our information is meager.^ 

1 The 96th Ohio Infantry took part in the ill-advised and unfortunate 
Red River expedition under Gen. Banks, and encountered great hardships 
and perils. It marched from Berwick to Alexandria, La., and engaged in 
the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, La., on the 8th of April, 1864, with a 
loss of 6 killed, including Col. J. W. Vance, 24 wounded, and 26 taken 
prisoners. Here Capt. Samuel Coulter, a brave man and valuable officer 
was wounded and taken prisoner. He died of his wounds April 28th in a 
Rebel hospital. After the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, in which Banks 
was defeated, he fell back to Pleasant Hill. La., with his army, now 
reduced to about 8,000 men. Gen. Kirby Smith, with nearly 20,000 Con- 
federates followed in hot pursuit. Here on the morning of the 9th there 
was some sharp skirmishing, and about 5 o'clock p. m. a fierce battle was 
fought. Our troops, greatly out-numbered, and in a woeful condition, never- 
theless fought valiantly. Kirby Smith was finally obliged to leave the field, 
baving lost several guns he had captured the day before. Banks marched 
•on to Grand Ecore, and was soon relieved of his command. 

The Union loss at the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, and Pleasant Hill, 
•was 3517, as follows: 258 killed, 1,487 wounded, and 1,772 captured or missing. 

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Our Home (iuards or Independent \'olunteei" Companies, 
have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to leave at 
an hour's notice for the defence of the State, and for garrison 
duty at the forts, and camps, to guard prisoners, so that the 
regular soldiery can all go to the front at once. There is a 
disposition about town to murmur and wince, and no wonder. 
It is no small thing for merchants and others to close their 
j)laces of business for three months. It will take three out of 
Johnson's store, four out at Lucas', etc., etc. But then I think 
so many will answer to the call, that some will be sent back. 

Lyman has been promoted. He is now a captain. There 
is honor in this. He has risen step by step for meritorious con- 
duct. In the beginning all were raw, and it was an easy thing 
to rise, but now it is finite difterent. 

Your mother. 



MRS. THOMAS T. .\XDERSON TO MRS. TAMES H. ANDERSON. 

^Iarion, Ohio. April 26. 1864. 

Di:.\R Princie : — A short note from James, and a Ham- 
burg daily newspaper, notified us of your confinement on the 
2^(\ nit., and we hope soon to get letters containing the partic- 
ulars. I trust you are doing well : I am so anxious abotit 
you. * * * J hope you will rally when warmer weather 
sets in. * * * 

I believe I have not told you of the death of Air. Peleg 
Bunker, formerly of this place. He died on the 3d inst. His 
deeply afflicted family, who are now here at Air. Jo. Lehman's, 
are left without means. Airs. L^llman comforted herself with 
the belief that her father on his return from the gold diggings 
at Pike's Peak, would take care of the Bunker family ; but alas. 
a few days ago she got a letter announcing his death, and the 
probable insolvency of his estate. So now they are doubly af- 
flicted. I have drank so deeply of the cup of affliction myself, 
that I think I am well prepared to feel for others woes. Air. 
Bunker^ was baptized and joined the church a short time be- 

1 Peleg- Bunker, as a very young man, was sheriff of Delaware county. 
During that time he studied law, and commenced the practice in Marion- 

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fore his death, and I trust triumphantly entered the "holy city," 
that hath "no need of the sun, neither of the moon,'" where "there 
shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crving." Mav we all 
be prepared for the great change there is no escaping. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio. May 9. 1864. 

Dear Son: — Three days ago I received yours of the 19th 
ult. I was giad to learn that Princie was in better health, and 
able to drive out. * * * You say you welcome the days that 
shorten your stay in Europe, but not more I am sure than I. 
Still after all I am glad you went. Your residence abroad has 
no doubt been of real advantage to you. And besides had you 
remained at home you would have obeyed your country's call. 
and instead of the civil, have entered the military service. Xot 
of a robust constitution, you could hardly have withstood the 
hardships, exposures and j^erils. incident to army life in time 
of war. and would probably long ere this have gone the way 
so many other poor soldiers have traveled — a loss to vour 
family irreparable, an additional wound to my bleeding heart. 

You are probably aware that the general government has 
called on Ohio for thirty thousand of her Home Guards. \Miether 
they will be taken out of the State we are not advised, but it is 
thought that they will be assigned to garrison duty within the 
State. Surely thirty thousand men are not needed to guard the 
military prisons in Ohio! In my opinion the government will 
retain, as manv here in the State as may be needed for garrison 

about the year 1S50. His first wife was Miss Hills, an elegant lady, sister 
of Chauncy A. Hills of Delaware, and an Episcopalian. His second wife 
was a Miss Amberg. a Jewess, a sister of Mrs. Jo. Ullman of Marion, both 
of whom professed conversion to Methodism. Mrs. Bunker was rather 
bright, and had a pretty Jewish face. Bunker himself, belonged to a good 
country family. After practicing his profession in Marion successfully for 
about ten years, he removed to Zanesville. Ohio, where he became promi- 
nent as a lawyer. He was an eloquent speaker, and a good trial lawyer, 
but a poor financier. He was a refined, upright man. and absolutely tem- 
perate. Indeed it has been said that his rigid habits diminished his joys 
and shortened liis days. 

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difty, and order the rest to report for duty at other points. The 
trained, drilled soldiers, are all needed at the front. A com- 
pany of Marion Home Guards expect marching orders to-day. 
You understand that these Home Guards are citizens, who vol- 
unteered after the Morgan raid for home defense. The call fell 
like an avalanche on the Guards ; and many think it will ruin 
their regular business. 

Many finding it impossible to leave their places of business, 
have procured substitutes, but the following among others, will 
leave with the company : Ira Uhler,^ H. G. Beemer, Christ F. 
Seffner, David J. Humphrey, Simon De Wolfe,- David Carter, 
Jay W. Williams, J. C. Johnston, Jacob R. Harshberger, John 
Hood, John J. Dunlap and John D. Stokes.-^ Dunlap and Stokes 
must quit college to go. Jacob Fribley and J. J. Hane, have 
hired substitutes. There are about 83 in the company. It fell 

1 Ira Uhler of Marion, born Feb. 15, 1835, became a prominent mer- 
chant, and May 11, 1864, enlisted in Co. B, 136th Reg. O. N. G., and as first 
sergeant served on garrison duty at Alexandria, Va., till his discharge 
in September. 

2 Simon E. De Wolfe, born in Bridgewater, N. Y., Dec. 16, 1832, came to 
Marion as a civil engineer, as heretofore stated, Aug. 21, 1853, and has re- 
sided there ever since. Like John Sherman he started out as a rodman. He 
was with the corps of engineers in the service of the Franklin and Warren R. 
R. Co., later called the Atlantic and Great Western. After the completion 
of the survey of the railroad, he embarked in the grain business, and as a 
business man and citizen his standing has always been high. By two mar- 
riages he had eight children, six of whom are now living. 

3 Rev. John D. Stokes, and all the others mentioned as members of 
the Home Guards, belonged to Co. B, 136th Reg. O. N. G., and were all 
representative men of high standing. Some fell on the field of honor, some 
have since died, and some still live. Hon. J. J. Hane a banker, died March 
23, 1898, worth $300,000. Rev. John D. Stokes is a Presbyterian clergy- 
man on Long Island. Jacob Fribley, a successful dealer in tinware, stoves, 
etc., was born June 14, 1828. Died in Marion wlien more than 70 years 
old. Jay W. Williams, a sterling business man and excellent citizen 
now resides in Rensselaer, Ind. He was born in Marion, Ohio, April 14, 
1845, was married near Rensselaer June 29, 1871, and has been success- 
ful in business. He has one child, Majry Jane, born March 1, 1873, who 
married Charles H. Porter, March 3, 1897. Jay W. Williams was in the 
service during the Civil War from May 2, 1864, to August 31, 1864. He 
was a bank cashier at Rensselaer for years, but is now a merchant. His 
father. Judge Joseph J. Williams, was born in Ross county, Ohio. May 
29, 1814; died in Marion, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1847. His mother Jane S. Beatty, 
born in New London, April 3. 1815, died in Marion, Ohio, June 24. 1883. 
Both were people of ability, intelligence and high character. On Wednes- 
day, Jan. 6, 1847, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of 
Ohio, in joint session, duly elected Joseph J. Williams associate Judge of 
Marion county, Ohio, for the term of seven years, from Feb. 28, 1847. 
He owed his election to the efforts of his friend Judge Thomas J. An- 
derson, who spent several days in Columbus to bring it about. Williams 

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hard on the agricuhurahst, and indeed we have none to spare. 
If an order of the kind could only be framed broad enough 
to include all the dnuiken town loafers it would be a good 
thing for them, and all others. 

Now I would give a good deal to see go, for he is a 

nuisance to his friends and others. Annie and I went to the 
graveyard a few days since to plant some flowers on poor Vir- 
girl's grave, and on our return, on the east side of the machine 

shop, we saw fall down. lie arose however, and walked 

on toward the depot. At that point his poor overtook 

him, and was no doubt trying to coax him to go home, when 
we passed without seeming to notice them. I thought : what 
a living curse ! We received a letter from Capt. Lyman S])auld- 
ing the other day. The troops including his regiment had just 
received orders to move.^ 

On or near the Rapidan, Gen Grant^ is now fighting the 
enemy, and Gen. Butler is doing the same between Petersburg 

had never taken much part in politics, and his acquaintance with the 
member.s of the legislature was quite limited. But he was an honorable 
man of good presence, and sound judgment, and his death after holding 
his commission less tlian nine months, was a severe affliction to his friends, 
and a distinct loss to tlic beneli on vvhioli lie sat with dignity and im- 
r)artiality. 

1 On May 7, 1864, Gen. Thomas, acting on Sherman's orders, moved in 
force against Tunnel Hill. Ca., dri^•ing off the enemy under Gen. Joseph 
E. Johnston. 

" The Wilderness, Va., a 1)loody and irregular flght between the Army 
of the Potomac, US, 000 strong, under CIrant, and the Army of Northern 
Virginia, numbering 61,000 Confederates under Lee. It occurred May 5, 
6, and 7, 18G4, and was not decisive. Both sides lost heavily. After the 
battle of tlie ^Vilderness, Grant wished to cut off ijce's communications 
with Richmond, and moved toward Spottsylvania Coui't House. Lee hur- 
ried in the same direction, and managed to arrive first. May Sth, 1864, 
was the commencement of an indecisive but hard-fought and bloody en- 
gagement, — the battle of Spottsylvania. May Sth Sheridan's cavalry corps 
engaged J. E. B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry, defeating them, and kill- 
ing their leader. The Union line at Spottsylvania Court House, was formed 
witli Hancock holding the right, Warren and Sedwick the centre, and Burn- 
side the left. On the 9th and 10th assaults were made by Hancock and 
Upton, but the Confederates remained firm. On the 12th a desperate charge 
by Hancock captured a coveted Confederate salient, and 4000 men under 
Edward Johnston. This captured point, the Confederates charged again 
and again, and there was frightful slaughter on both sides. "From this 
death angle the Confederates retired at night." 

At the battle of the Wilderness the T^nion army lost 17,666, as fol- 
lows: 2246 killed, 12,037 wounded and 3383 captured or missing. .Xt the 
battle of Spottsylvania, the Union army lost 18,309 as follows: 2725 killed, 
13,416 wounded, and 2258 captured or missing. The Confederates remained 
in undisturbed possession of both battlefields, the Union army leaving its 
unburied dead, and many of its wounded in their hands. 

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and Richmond. The news of Grant's and Butler's operations 
are favorable, but there is nothing definite from Sherman. U 
how sad. how very sad it makes me feel to know that we have 
so many sufifering" and dying- on the field of battle to-day. It 
seems to me, with all my infirmities, that 1 should go to their 
relief, to minister to their comfort. 

^'ou have certainly done a good work in securing contri- 
butions for our Sanitary Fairs ; but if I were in your place, I 
should not solicit donations from any Intt American citizens. 
The people and government of the United States are amply able 
to provide for our sick and wounded soldiers. With hospital 
and other stores, they have been and will be abundantly sup- 
plied. It is proper enough to be sure, for European artists wdio 
wish to become known in America, that they may find a mar- 
ket here for their wares, to loan or donate them to our Sani- 
tary h^airs. Their acts of generosity may prove profital)le in- 
vestments, for we have in this countrv many men and women 
too wdio are not only capable of appreciating works of art of 
grcai merit, but are al)le and willing to buy. But I should 
not I think solicit even such favors from foreign artists. 

We have had a backward spring. ( )n the 2(1 inst. the snow 
fell nearly all day. It melted as it came, otherwise the sncnvfall 
must have meastu'ed a foot in depth. At night only 2 or 3 
inches lay on the ground ; but warm weather ensued, and since 
vegetation has fairly leaped forth. Love to all. Kiss the sweet 
cherubs for me. 

Yotu" aftectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. AN'DRKSOX TO JAMKS H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, May 10, 1864. 

My dear Son: — We are glad to hear that I'rincie is get- 
ting along so well, and that her daily drives benefit her. She 
ought to follow it up — drive out often. * * 

We have had a call for more tr()0])s. (_)ur Home Guards 
are needed by the government to guard our fortifications, and 
our ])orders, while the veterans go to the front. The army 

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of the Potomac is now engaged in a terrible light with the 
Rebel army under Lee. Cien Grant is pushing Lee hard, and 
the slaughter on both sides is fearful.' In Gen. Grant, Lee has 
found his match. Gen. Sherman- with a very large army is 
now fighting Gen. Joseph P^. Johnston in Tennessee, and it is re- 
ported that he is driving the Rebels before him. The loyal ])eoi)le 
of the United States are now in high spirits, while the Rebels 
are cast down. There are men in our midst who feel gloomv 
wdienever we oljtain a victorx- ; InU the V. S. Government for all 
that will be sustained. 

Air. Lincoln is sure to be renominated for President in June 
next, and .--ure to be re-elected. So when you return home you 
will find him still President. 

In this District we exjiect to nominate Geil. John 15eatty 
for Congress, and if nominated he will be elected. He is vour 
friend and mine. 1 nmst close. ALiy God bless you. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — I am greatl}- interested in what xou write about your 
efforts to protect the rights of two American citizens, Lindner 
and Stern, and secure the return of their fire-arms. 

T. J. A. 



FREDERICK W. SEWARD TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Department of St.\te, 
/. H. Anderson. Esq. W.ashington. Marcli '_>4. 1S(U. 

Consul of the United States. Hamhuro. 

Sir: — Vour dispatch No. 265, lias lieen received, and your dili- 
gence is commended in preparing the laliorious and hicid exposition of 
the reclamation of Messrs. Lindner and Stern again>t llie (iovernment of 
■ Denmark. 

1 Tliis refers to the battles of the Wilderness and of Spottsylvania 
Court House. 

2 This refers to the beginning of Gen. W. T. Sherman's celebrated 
campaign through Georgia. The first important battle was fought M;iy 
14, and 15, 1S64. at Resaca, Ga. Sherman had 100.000 troops; Johnston, the 
Confederate, about 55,000. McPherson gained an important position. Hooker 
made a brilliant charge, and Jolinston seeing his communications sei-iously 
threatened, retreated on the night of the 15th. Sherman i>ursued him as 
■expeditiously as possible. 

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As requested, Mr. Wood, our minister at Copenhagen, has received 
the instructions which the President has thought proper to issue on the 
subject. I am. Sir, Your obedient servant, 

F. W. Seward, 

.i ssista n t Sec rcta ry. 



MTSS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MR. AND MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, May 23, 1864. 

Dear Brother and Sister : — Mother has hniited me to 
half a sheet only, so I can't say much, nor indeed is there much 
to say. Hattic^ is writing, and will no doubt give you all the 
news. The weather is beautiful, real May weather, and the 
trees and the shrubs, and the plants lure me from the house. 
This springtime is indeed lovely, all nature is so full of life. If 

little M were here now, she could gather more dandelions 

than she could carry. 

What name are you going to give the baby? A pretty Ger- 
man one I hope. * * * 

James, your trip must have been very interesting. How 
pleasant and gratifying to see so much of the world. To have 
been with you would have delighted me. Your advantages are 
great, and I know you will improve them to the best of your 
ability. 

But two remain, you and L How glad I shall be to welcome 
you to your native land — your own beloved America. You 
will see great changes. When you come home I hope you will 
coine to stay. None of us want you to go away again, for 
you are necessary to our happiness. 

There is a party this evening at Mr. Robert King's to 
which I am invited. Parties are rare now a-days, for the people 
do not feel like giving them. The times are too serious. 

Will. Gurley- is dead. He belonged to the 4th Ohio, and' 
was wounded in Grant's great battle in Virginia, the battle 

1 Mrs. Harriet Concklin Fribley. 

^W^illiam Monnett Gurley, was a son of John Gurley, and a nephew 
of Rev. L. B. Gurley, D. D., the celebrated divine. His mother was a 
Monnett. He was an educated young gentleman of high character, and 
a descendant of two of the oldest and most respectable families in Ohio. 
He was wounded May 6th and died at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., 
May 11th. 1S64. The best blood of the country was in tlie ranks. He 

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of the Wilderness. He was a s^ood Christian soldier, and his 
last words were: "I should die liai)|)y if T could see my mother 
once more, and knew that the Cnion army would trium])h." 

Your ati'ectionate sister, 

AXNTK. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio, May 23, 1864. 

My dear Son: — Your kind letter of the 30th nil. was 
duly received. * * * The Conference of the M. E. Church 
meets here in Septemher, and how 1 dread it ! T don't feel 
able to entertain and wait on o^e'sts as I ditl some years ago. 1 
think that we shall fmd it difficult to entertain the Conference, 
as several of our best and most hosi)itahle members have left 
the place. * * * 

I believe I have not told you that John W. I'.ain' has gone 
to Kansas, and talks of making it his future home. He is now 
in Leavenworth, and has ])urchased a large i)roperty. You prob- 
ably know that he has sold a large amount of his wife's prop- 
erty. I think that John has almost too much money to know 
just what to do. * * * 



was born in Marion. Sept. 29. 1840. and enlisted May 24, 1861. m Co. H. 
4th reg O V. I. His captain was E. B. Olmstead; his colonel, Lorin An- 
drews His fatlier John Gurloy. was born at Zanesville, Ohio, Dec. 19. 
1813 and died at Marion, Aug. 8. 1892. His mother Hannah Monnett, was 
born in Pickaway county. Ohio. Dec. 13, 1817, and died in Marion April 
15, 1880. Mr. L. B. Gurley Jr., now (1903) a prominent citizen of Marion, 
is a brother of the deceased soldier. 

1 John W. Bain, a merchant of Marion, born May 21. 1828, was a son 
Of William Bain, a native of Dundee, ScoUand, also a '":"'-^^';^\"^;„*";^^^;." 
Columbus and later in Marion. William came to Marion about 182G. where 
he died Oct. 23, 1856. John was a fine appearing, pleasant gentleman, and 
a very zealous Methodist, while his father, whose face was frightfully 
disfigured, was an Old School Presbyterian. John's A'-^^ ^'^^ /^^ .f 
Miss Julia Hall, of Indianapolis. His second wife was Miss Mary Monnet . 
of Crawford county. Ohio, by whom he had two children, now (190o In- 
ing: Abraham M.. and Minnie R. Bain. John W. died in Brooklyn N. 
Y SeDt 17 1880. and his wife. Mary Monnett. died in Kansas. July SI. 
1885. John's only sister Charlotte, wife of John E. Davids^ ''%],''IT Z 
Columbus. July 19, 1826. and died in Marion. June 20 1899. Si- «^ the 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Davids are living, one of whom, Mrs George "1 . 
Em,;;on-an accomplished lady - kindly furnished mo valuable data re- 
lating to the Bain and Davids families. 

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I don't believe that Uncle Abe has a more faithful ser- 
vant in Europe, and I think you have done yourself great credit 
as a diplomat. I"\'\v men could have succeeded so well. You 
nuist have brought weighty arguments to bear on the govern- 
ment of Denmark, for it seems to me if I had been the Min- 
ister of Foreign Affairs, or executive head of that kingdom, I 
would not have conceded what you finally obtained. 1 am glad 
of course that you were so successful, for it must raise you in 
the estimation of both this government and that. I think it is 
very high distinction to have one's diplomacy commended by 
learned statesmen. ^ Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 7, 1864. 
Dear Son: — Yours of the 12th ult. was read with plea- 
sure. I trust your proposed trip will benefit Princie. I am glad 
you met Mr. Hammerle, but sorry you saw so little of him. He 
could have given you much local news, and would have an- 
swered any question cheerfully. You will no doubt have his 
eternal gratitude for the valuable service you rendered him. I 
suppose we may look for the arrival of Mr. H — ■ — by the next 
Hamburg steamer. 

1 Messrs. Lindner and Stern. U. S. citizens, dealers in firearms, had stored 
in Altona, adjoining- Hamburg, in Nov. 1S63, twenty-two liimdred valuable 
carbines. As Altona is in Holstein, then a part of the kingdom of Den- 
mark, these arms were seized by the Danes on the 23d of Nov. as con- 
traband of war, and taken to the island of Alsen. This act gave rise to 
a long diplomatic controversy, and much other correspondence. Our min- 
ister at Copenhagen, Hon. Biiidford R. Wood, not being very well, was 
away from his post much of the time, and 1 was called upon by the 
owners of the carbines, who resided temporarily in Hamburg, as their of- 
ficial representative, to present their case to the Secretary of State at 
Wa.shington, to our Minister at Copenhagen, and to the Minister of War at 
Copenhagen. Meanwhile the war for the possession of Schleswig-Holstein, 
was being waged by Austria and Prussia, (whose armies occupied Holstein 
Dec. 24. 1863), against Denmark, .ind it was very difficult to obtain any 
satisfactory settlement. Tlie Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs finally 
offei'ed to return the arms paying the fi'eight. and to ship them to any 
poi't that T.I. & S. might designate. This proposition was declined. After 
further correspondence, and several personal interviews, the arms were 
returned, and $3000 in cash ,as damages. Before this concession was made, 
I visited Copenhagen where I spent five days. The carbines were valued at 
. $.50,000. 

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W'c i^dt a letter from L. a few days since. Jle liad par- 
ticipated in a series of recent l)attles in Georgia, under Sher- 
man.^ riiey had heen driving the eneni\' nearly every day, but 
at the tune he wrote there was a lull. He said they expected 
a battle in the morning, and onr ret/.s- fought 1 see by the papers. 
Two or three da\s ])efore he wrote, he met his brother-in-law, 
Colonel J. S. l\ol)inson, and Major David Thompson, (both of 
Kenton), of the Sjd ( )hio. It w-as while a battle was being fought, 
but their immediate lines uere not then engaged, and the\- had 
ten or fifteen minutes to talk. Col. R. was in a low state of health, 
and suffering so luuch at the time that he would have gone to 
the rear but for the battle then on. 1 see by the Cincinnati 
Commercial that Robinson is among the wounded. I'oor fel- 
low. He will hardly recover. We lost heavily in the last battle, 
and my anxiety is great to know whether any of our friends fell. 

Your father having business in \Vyan<lot county I accom- 
panied him as far as Little Sandusky, where 1 remained at the 
residence of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Worth until his return. I 
enjoved mv visit. The Worths kindly inquired about you both. 

Your eff'orts in Copenhagen, before the Minister of War of 
the Danish ( jovennuent, in behalf of Lindner and Stern, Ameri- 
can citizens, were certainly successful and deserving of great 
credit. Few could have done so well, in so important a mat- 
ter, involving so nuich : none better. May (iod protect you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



CORA TO MARY. 

Marion, Ohio, June 21, 1864. 

My dear Coi'sin: — T am so sorry that p(M)r little James 
is so sick. 1 hope he will not die. In that package that Aunt 
Princess sent bv Mr. Hammerle I found directed to me two nice 



1 Sherman's march through Georgia. His Atlanta campaign from May 
5th to Sept. I. 1Sfi4. includes these. battles: Rocky Face Ridge. Rosaca, New 
Hope Church. Pickett's Mills, Dallas. Adairsville, Cussville. Rome Cross 
Roads. Pine Mountain, Gulp's House. Kenesaw Mountain, I^attimore's Mills, 
Powder Springs. Nickajack Creek. Chattahoochie. Peach Tree Creek. Atlanta, 
Ezra Chapel. Utoy Creek, and TiOve.ioy's Station. The Union losses were 
31,687 as follows: 4423 killed, 22,822 wounded, and 4442 missing. 

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little pictures. I guess they were from you Mary, and I am 
much obliged to you. Mary I will tell you that Carrie Fribley 
has got another little baby sister, and they think of calling it 
Jessie. Carrie talks much about you, and says she wishes you 
would hurry and come home. 

Mary tell your papa that I had a letter from my papa not 
long ago. He was down in Georgia fighting the Rebs., almost 
every day. He was standing on the battle field when he wrote, 
in line of battle. Our troops in that region have had several 
battles since I last heard from him. Give my love to all the 

lamily, but leave a share for yourself. Kiss little J for me. 

Your loving cousin, 

Cora Spaulding. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Dear Princie: — I will add to Cora's letter that Amanda 

Wildbahn is much pleased with the you sent her, 

^ * * Mary Williams being away from home has not yet 
seen hers, but she will be pleased with it I am confident. 

Mary M and her husband have gone to living to- 
gether again — simple-like. I would only part for a good and 
sufficient reason and then it would be forever. How happy I 
•should be to see you all. Well the time is running apace: less 
than one short year and we meet again. Love to all. 

Aiifectionately. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Tuesday June 21, 1864. 

My dear Son: — We received our Hamburg mail of the 
28th ult. on last Thursday, bearing the melancholy intelligence 
of the sickness — probably fatal — of dear little James from 
membranous croup. We are all feeling badly lest our worst fears 
may be realized, yet hoping they may not. Now my dear, if 
God has seen fit in His inscrutable wisdom to remove the little 
cherub from these low grounds where we all realize that sor- 
rows lie, to a clime of infinite light and beauty where, sorrow 

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has no room and aching hearts are unknown, }'ou and your 
family can only sul)mit to the divine decree for you can not 
call him back. 1 am well prepared to sympathize with you in 
this sad bereavement, having lost three iirfant children, and each 
was like yielding up my life. But since then, learning much of 
the world and its sorrows has well-nigh reconciled me to their 
fate. 

If the dear child is gone, be assured that ( iod foresaw some 
great impending sorrow, or calamity, and in love and mercy 
removed him to a place of safety where the shafts of the enemy 
are powerless. I know that it is almost mockery to attempt to 
offer consolation, for time and time only, will convince us that 
it was for the best. You say the child im])roved in aj^pearance 
"verv much since we saw him. Here many thought him hand- 
some. I however never saw any remarkal)le beauty, onl\' a fine 
looking child with an uncommon countenance, that I could hardly 
interpret; he looked so thoughtful, so intellectual for an infant. 

Annie has always said she never saw so good a child, and 
when I read the letter she burst into tears saying she was 
quite sure he was dead, "he was so good and bright." She likes 
little children, but he was the only one over whom she was 
ever enthusiastic. I will now dismiss this gloomy and sor- 
rowful subject with a high hope that the child is alive and well. 
Write us very soon. Love to all. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 22d, 1864. 

My dear Brother : — I cannot believe that little J , my 

pet, my darling, is dead ! We wait in anxious suspense for our 
next mail, and hope it will bring the glad news that he is better, 
if not well. I can hardly think of anything else. I always felt 
that he was too good to live: and if he has been taken it is 
no doubt for the best: and he will be saved much sorrow and 
suffering. I always thought him pretty and amiable. It cannot 
be that I shall never see him more. No: I will wait to know 

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for a certainty. When }'(iu come home, the baby^ will be just 
as old as James was when he returned to ( iermany. Mr. Ham- 
merle said that James- was smart, and could talk so well, that 
he said he was "coming" home in one year." The little dear; 

1 want to see him so very nmch. 1 have thought if J 

should die von would l)ring him home for burial. 1 do wish 
yon were all here now. '•' * * 

Lizzie Tillotson-^ is to be married to-morrow night to a Mr. 
Hogne, of Charleston, 111. IJyron Wilson"* is at home for a few 
(lavs. He says he should like verv much to cross over to Ham- 
l)urg to see \'ou, that he would try to do so if it were not for 
the war, and that he would give you a good strong salute. 
* * * Your alTectionate sister, 

Annie. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

« 

Marion Ohio, June 2^(1, 1S64. 

Dear Jami's: — Mr. H returned from (iermany the 

ic^tli inst. We were glad to see him because he had so recently 
seen vou and vour family, lie thinks you look much better 
than you did here, and that I'rincess looks better than he ever 
saw her. Hut f (|uestion if he ever saw her here at all. I 
told him ! was sure she could not look Vv'ell, that it was prob- 
al)l\' her stvle of dress he had reference to, or a desire on his 
part to have us l)elieve that every lady in Germany is healthy in 
appearance. This he would not admit. 

^ Charles Finley Anderson, born in Hamburg. March 26. 1862. 

- James T. Anderson, born in Hamburg. March 26, 1862. 

" Joshua M. Hogue. and Elizabeth Vesta Tlllotson were married in 
Cliarlpston, TU., Jime 23. 1<S64. She was fairly well educated, and so candid, 
ladylike, and attractive that every one loved her. She was born Oct. 5, 
183S, and brought up in Mar'ion. Mr. and Mrs. Hogue moved many years 
ago to Kmporia. Kansas. 

* Capt. Byron Wilson jif the U. £*. Nav-y. a graduate of the U. S. Naval 
Academy at Annapolis, ••iiid a son of Hon. Richard Wilson (a prominent 
citizen of Marion, and one of its earliest settlers), made a fine career 
during the Civil War. He was a brave efflcient officer, and an upright 
rnan. As boys wo attended the s,ame schools, and engaged in the same- 
pastimt^s and sports, and remained intimate friends till his death whichi 
took place at Philadelphia, Sept. 6, 1893. 

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He thinks the people Hve hurridh in ( iernKin\-. I le says their 
daily food consists of hard, hlack, heavy, sour bread, sour milk, 
and potatoes, with a small slice of meat twice a week. He thinks 
he could live nearly as well on chi])s and stones; and that a raw 
onion which he ate daily, alone enabled him to digest the pro- 
vender. Von will bear in mind that he of course refers to the 
food of the peasant class. While traveling in (Jermany his 
breakfast consisted of a bit of stale bread, and a cu]) of colTee. 
"Such a breakfast!" lie exclaimed. While in the h'atherlaiid he 
was thoroughly homesick, Init his adventures were not a few, 
which he related in an entertaining way. 

He returns you many thanks for your kindnesses, says he 
will always remember you, and that when you come home he 
will do anything in the world he can for you. He reached 
Southampton, England, the day before the arrival of the Ham- 
burg steamship the Saxonia, but as soon as she came into port 
he went aboard, and told the captain that he wanted a passage 
to New York. "We can't take another passenger," said the 
captain, but on showing him your papers the cai)tain said "all 
right," and readily admitted him. ''' ''■ ''' He says he in- 
([uired in Hamburg about you, and found that the people thought 
so much of you. * * * 

A (ierman of the name of * * '•' lived in the vicinity 
of Marion for several years. He married a few years ago, and 
had a son who T believe is now al)ove three years old. Over 
two years ago this German enlisted in the 82d reg. ( ). V. I. 
After he left here with his regiment, his wife came to town, 
and plunged into the depths of iniquity, and shamefully neg- 
lected her child, until respectable people interfered, and took 
it from her. This she considered a good riddance. It was 
hard to get any one to take the child, but it was finally placed 

in the hands of H B , who was paid to take care 

of it. The child's father being informed of what had been 

done, said he was glad of it. H B corresponded 

with him, and we will infer expatiated on her attachment to 
the child. He furnished her money, she dressed it, and made 
its appearance quite decent. You have probal)ly heard how 
kind and insinuating she can be. 

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Well last winter the child's father, having secured a divorce, 
came back to Marion on furlough, and married her! His "jump- 
ing out of the frying pan into the fire," as people expressed it, 
caused some talk, and a good deal of laughter. But I think he 

did better than that. I don't think H B is a , 

though she has been suspected by some since the death of B 

B , her former husband. 

Now to the point. It was reported that this German sol- 
dier, (the father of the little boy), was killed in the recent 

battle near Dallas, in Georgia; and thereupon his widow, H 

B , called on me, and requested me to write to you and ask 

you to look for a brother of her late soldier-husband who she 
says resides in Hamburg, and keeps a drug-store. This she 
learns from a letter from his father, whose home is in the city 
of H in the kingdom of Hanover. 

If you find such a brother. you may inform him of the death 
of his brother here, and tell him about the son. The widow 

H B , says the members of the family in Germany 

are highly respectable, and that the father is a professor in 
an institution of learning, that he is rich, and that his daughter, 
(sister of the deceased soldier), is the wife of the mayor of 
the city in Hanover in which they reside, and that they live 

in great style. She, H B is presumptious enough 

to think of going to that country with the child, but says she 
can never be separated from him. Now if this child is an heir 
to property in Germany, or likely to become one, it is proper 
and right that his claims should be set up, and that his rela- 
tives should be advised of his present place of residence, but 
the family in Germany will not likely want to have much to do 
with the stepmo'ther. I asked her if her husband had notified 
his relatives of his divorce and second marriage. She said he 
had not. So they no doubt think that she is the child's mother. 
I told her there must be no' deception practiced if you had 
any thing to do with the case. If you find that the child is an 
heir to property, or likely to become one, measures can be taken 
to prove his identity, and establish his claims. 

If you can find out whether the child will inherit property, 
it might be a charity to do so. In speaking or writing to the 
brother in Hamburg, or the father in Hanover, it will be suf- 

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ificient to say that the brother and son who hved here and who 
was recently killed in battle, was divorced from his first wife, 
and after about two weeks acquaintance took another, with 
whom he lived two weeks, and then returned to the field, that by 
his first wife he had a son now over three years old, and that 
the child is in the custody of its stepmother who is too poor 
to support it. She professes a deep interest in the child, but I 
have my own idea about the extent of it. I have written too 
much concerning these people. Love to all. 

Your afl:ectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 4th, 1864. 

Dear Son: — I duly received your note of the i8th ult. in- 
forming us of the recovery of little James. ^ I breathed easier 
I assure you after this intelligence, for I had almost given the 
little fellow up. But God has seen fit in his infinite wisdom 
to spare him a little longer, in answer no doubt to your prayers. 

Well I presume you are quite alone now, and you must 
feel very lonely without your family. The trip may benefit 
Princie; but the springs in my opinion have not been found 
that cure consumption. When cool weather begins to set in, 
she should go to the northern borders of Italy, and there by 
the lake of Como, or Lecco, or other pleasant, healthful spot, 
spend the winter. If this be decided on, and you can get your 
house ofif your hands, it would be well to pack and store your 
furniture, or such of it as you wish to bring home, and then take 
rooms at a hotel, for you will be alone much of the time, and be- 
sides may wish to accompany Princie. When you retire from 
the Consular service, you will wish to ship your furniture and 
household goods to this country, for such articles are very high 
here now — such as you would be willing to use would cost a 
great sum — and it would be advisable to have them in readi- 
ness to send. Here everything is frightfully dear as you know. 



1 An operation, then considered heroic, by one of the most skillful sur- 
geons of Germany, at once gave relief and saved his life. 

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In anticipation of a rise, 1 bought a few weeks since some dress- 
goods, and now the same kind are mnch higher. 

Affairs in the War Department wear a gloomy aspect. We 
have had a sail reverse at Kenesaw Mountain, in Georgia, and 
as Captain Lyman Spaulding's reg. (121 O. V. I.) was at the 
front, I fear he is among the slain. This regiment lost heavily 
in killed and wounded. Capt. Clason,^ a graduate of the O. 
W. University, an accomplished young man, was killed. The 
news of Capt. Clason's death reached Delaware just as the mem- 
bers of the graduating class were receiving their diplomas, and 
saddened every heart. We lost many valuable officers. We re- 
ceived a letter from L. written with a pencil on the battle field 
about two weeks since. '^ * * 

It seems to me that I Vv'ould sooner hear that one near and 
dear to me had been killed, than that he was slowly starving to 
death in a filthy rebel prison. The suffering this accursed re- 
bellion has wrought, will never be calculated till the day of 
judgment. 

The Sabbath schools of the place are celebrating the Fourth 
in Copeland's Grove. They have a picnic, etc. Some of the 
boys are firing off a small cannon, which I can hardly bear to 
hear as it is suggestive of blood and death. 

The news v/as telegraphed to town to-day that Girard Rey- 
nolds- of Bucyrus, formerly of this place, fell in a raid on Rich- 

1 Marshall B. Clason, was killed June 27, 1864, at the battle of Kenesaw 
Mountain. Sherman with 100,000 troops, had followed Johnston with 60,000 
Confederates, Johnston had strongly fortified himself, and assaults of the 
Union army failed disastrously, the army losing in killed and wounded about 
3,000. Johnston retired from his position July 1, 1864. 

2 Capt. Girard Reynolds, a cavalry officer of knightly bearing who fell 
at the head of his troop June 24, 1864, was a soldier by instinct, and 
his loss was deeply felt. It was in Marion county, where he was reared, 
that he was early united to the beautiful woman of his choice — Miss 
Lydia Paulina Priest. He entered the service as second lieutenant Aug. 
19, 1861, was promoted to first lieutenant Sept. 17, 1861, to captain Oct. 8, 
1861, and fell at the battle of Stanton River Bridge in Virginia. Captain 
Girard Reynolds was born June 7. 1828. at the Catfish Hotel, on the 
Little Scioto river, about 3 miles from Marion. His father, an eccentric 
man of culture and more of less ability, named his son for the famous 
Stephen Girard of Pliiladelphia. Mrs. Reynolds is now the wife of Fred- 
erick P. Seffner, an excellent citizen, and they reside in Tampa, Fla. 

The company that Capt. Reynolds recruited in Marion and Bucy- 
rus, went to Washington as an independent company. There it became- 
Co. M. 11th reg. Penn. Cavalry. At the time he fell he was acting colonel. 
Mrs. Seffner says that Capt. Reynolds was born in Delaware, Ohio. 

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mond. His wife, who is liviiii^ here now, was at Mr. Fred. Seff- 
' ner's when she heard of it, and it prostrated her hke a thunder- 
holt. Without saying a word slie fainted away, and during- the 
whole afternoon her friends lal)ored to revive her, only to see 
lier faint away again and again on regaining consciousness. She 
is now recovering. 

Mrs. v. F. Fowler made us a visit last week, and I 
was very glad to see her. We had a very pleasant time, only 
her stay — 40 hours — was too short. We put in the time to 
the best possible advantage. While she was here, we visited 
Mrs. Judge Ozias Bowen,^ a perfect lady as you know, and 
slie entertained us handsomely. She took us through every 
apartment of her new house, and was at great pains to show us 
its new features. It is quite a palatial residence. 

The letters you received from Mrs. E. W. Sherwood, and 
Mr. Seward, approving of your labors in behalf of the New 
York Metropolitan Fair, in aid of the U. S. Sanitarv Commis- 
sion, were quite complimentary, but none too much so for the 
good done. * * * 

1 Judge Ozias Bowen was born in Augusta, N. Y., July 21, 1805. He 
studied law in the office of Gregory Powers, at Canton, Ohio, and was 
admitted to the bar at Canton, Sept. 23, 1S2S. He at once came to Marion 
and opened a law office. On Feb. 7. 1838. he was elected for the term of 
seven years, by the legislature, president judge of the second judicial circuit 
of the State, and at the end of said term he was re-elected for a like term. 
In June, 185d, he was appointed by Gov. S. P. Chase, Supreme Judge, to 
fill a vacancy, and at the ensuing October election was chosen by the people 
for the same high position. In the fall of 1S60. he became a Presidential 
Klector, and cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln. In 1853, with Columbus 
Delano, Charles T. Sherman, and others, he founded the Central Bank of 
Indianapolis, of which he was president, but disposed of his interest in the 
bank three years later. February 17. 1833, he married Miss Lydia Baker, 
daughter of Eber Baker, the founder of Marion. She died in June, 1847, 
and the following spring he married Miss Eliza M. Mclntyre, a graduate of 
the Baptist Female Seminary (1846) at Charlestown, Mass., an accomplished 
and brilliant young lady. His second wife died in May, 1870, and in Sep- 
tember, 1871, the judge traveled the same dark road. The estimable wife 
of Harry True, banker of Marion, is the only living child of Ozias and 
Eliza M. Bowen, By his first wife his children were Ellen Mary. Thomas 
Corwin, Marcellus, Lauren Dewey and Albertus. Ellen M. married John 
Harper and moved to Indianapolis, where she was residing at the time 
of her death. Thomas C. graduated at the Naval Academy at An- 
napolis. Marcellus graduated at Yale, entered the Presbyterian ministry and 
resided as a missionary many years at Smyrna. He is now at Constanti- 
nople as agent of the A. M. Bible Soviety. Lauren Dewey became a mer- 
chant in Cleveland, and Albertus has been an efficient railroad official. Hon. 
Ozias Bowen was one of the ablest lawyers that ever jiracticed in central 
Ohio. 

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1 hope Princie will soon recover her health, and be able to. 
enjoy life again. If she lives to retnrn, and my life be spared,. 
I will take charge of the children while you both spend the win- 
ters in Cuba. Dr. T. H. Dickerson recently got home from the 
army, and is building a dwelling in the "Bowen orchard" on E. 
Center street. May God in His mercy have you in His holy 
keeping. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Tuesday, July 5, 1864. 

Dear Son: — Yours of the nth ult. was duly received. 

The letter enclosed, addressed to the Ohio State Journal, was 

forwarded by me without delay. I was glad to learn that you 
were all in such good health. 

We have had fine rains and everything looks well. Wool 
men are doing well now. Those who did not sell early are now 
getting $1.00 per lb. and some a little higher price. 

Before you get this you will have learned that Mr. Salmon 
P. Chase has tendered his resignation as Secretary of the Treas- 
ury and retired from the cabinet. We think it was a bad move, 
but then Senator Fessenden of Maine, his successor, is a very 
good and capable man, and his appointment seems to give sat- 
isfaction. We cannot account for the resignation^ of Mr. Chase. 

Our Presidential campaign will not be altogether smooth 
or devoid of trouble. But we expect to elect Mr. Lincoln. John 
C. Fremont intends to and will no doubt give us a good deal 
of trouble. Fremont, and the disunion element, will do all in 
their ]:)0wer to defeat Mr. Lincoln, but we hope that neither 
will be successful in their wicked designs. 

1 Many years ago — about 1867 — I heard Hon. C. L. Vallandigham tell 
why Gov. S. P. Chase resigned the Treasury portfolio. As the incredible 
story reflected on our martyred President. Abraham Lincoln, and was withal 
shockingly vulgar in some of its details, I would not think of repeating it 
here. 

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James R. Hublicll of Delaware is the lvepu1)lican candidate 
for Congress in our tlistrict. (the <Sth). (ien. John Heatty^ of 
INIorrow, was a candidate before the convention for the nomina- 
tion, but was defeated by a small majorit}-. i was very sorry 
for I wanted Gen. Deatty to get it. He is a good man, and 
was a good soldier. We expected that he would have a ma- 
jority in each county in the district, but some of the delegations 
were packed against him. That the general was the most pop- 
ular man for the place, I have no doubt. Love to Princess and 
the dear little children. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES 11. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio. July 14, 1864. 

Dear Son: — I have just tinished a letter inviting ]\Ir. and 
Mrs. R. N. Taylor, and brother Selsor, to visit us on the 23d, 
the day we give the soldiers of the 4th Ohio a formal reception. 
There will be a dinner and si)eeches in Copeland's Grove. 

The Rebels have been making demonstrations on Washing- 
ton, but withdrew without doing much harm. They found they 
were mistaken in the number of men on and in the fortifications, 
and in their strength, and so retired. 

I believe I did not tell you that Hannah, the wife of J 

M , is supposed to be insane. An application will be 

made for her admission to the Lunatic Asylum at Columbus. 

E A , of this county is also supposed (by a few) 

to be insane. Others believe it to be sheer devilment. For 

mv part, I hope in all charity, that E A 's mental 

ol>liquity is insanity. And I have just heard as a kind of secret 
that Mr. Addison Osborn, late prosecuting attorney of the county 



1 Gen. John Beatty was the man the people wanted at that time. He 
was fresh from fields of blood, where he had shown uncommon courage, 
and great military talent for one not trained to the profession of arms. 
In his district no one's military record eclipsed his; hence his name was 
in every mouth. But he had not been an offlce-seelser. and was not familiar 
with the game of politics, especially as practiced in "packing" delegate 
conventions. So he was defeated by James R. Hubhc^ll. of Delaware, an 
expert wire-puller, but a weak man. Beatty was afterwards elected three 
times to represent the same district in Congress. 

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is also insane. You know him. He lives near Mr. Peter Beer- 
bower. How unfortunate. 

Did I ever tell you that John Ault, merchant and banker, 
always considered so prudent and safe, died insolvent? He 
was the trusted agent of the government for the sale of U. S. 
bonds. 

July 17. A very warm day. but I have been to church 
and heard the Rev. L. J. Dales, who is on this station, preach. 
Not remarkable for talent, but a good man. We shall have a 
change this fall. Idie M. E. Conference meets here in September, 
but I shall not entertain as many ministers as 1 did when it met 
here last. 

July 18. Our overdue Hamburg mail has not arrived. I 
can't account for it unless the mail-bag was on the Washing- 
ton train that the Rcljels raided and rc^bbed. In two instances 
they liave rol)bed mail trains to W. 

The al)sence of your family nuist make vou feel verv lonely. 
How long will they remain away? I wish I'rincie would write 
to me from the s])rings. I should like to know the condition 
of her health, and how she is enjoying her stay at Rehburg, 
the summer resort. What is the babe's name ?^ Does it look 
like either of the other children? We haven't heard anything 
from L since the 28th of June. He was then in Ken- 
tucky. Cora is perfectly wrapped up in him. He writes her 
such kind letters, encourages her in her studies, and says she 
is all the world to him. I live in anticipation of a happy re- 
union on your return to this country. May God in His good- 
ness grant that the few of us who are left may be spared to 
meet again. Adieu. 

Your afifectionate mother. 



THOM.\S J. ANOERSOX TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio, July 19, 1864. 

My dear Son : — Your tenant Josiah Hedges will do well 
on the Deal I'arm. He is a worker and an honest man. I have 

' Charles Finley Anderson. 

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not been to the other farms very lately, Init think the tenants 
are taking proper care of them. Since the service of a writ 
of injunction on , he has paid over to the clerk of Wy- 
andot county $iK)o. So Mr. H. H. lloldridge, who bought his 
wool informed me. 

Marion county suffered a loss in killed and wounded of a 
number of brave soldiers in storming the Rebel works on Kene- 
saw Mountain, on the 27th of June. Scaling the heights of 
Kenesaw, was a frightfully perilous undertaking in which many 
were killed. Sam. Mounts, and Robert lloyd's sons, who be- 
longed to Capt. Lyman Spaulding's company in the 121 (). \^ I. 
were killed. A list of the casualties will be found in the Ohio 
State Journal of this date.^ Capt. T. Eugene I'illotson is well, 
and under Sherman is fighting almost every day. 

John Ault's ijropertv, dwelling house, warehouse, etc., will 
be sold to pay his debts. Heman Scott bought his store and 
storehouse, that is, his stock of goods and business house. Do 
you wish to Iniy the Ault homestead? 

We received your letter informing us that you would start 
to the springs at Rehburg on the 15th of June. 

The President has made a call for 500,000 more troo])S. 

Yotu- father, 

T. }. Anderson. 



MISS .\NNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. J.XMES II. .\NDERSON. 

A/[.\RioN, Ohio. July i<). 1864. 

De.ar Princess: — The mail matter that we have been ex- 
pecting from Hamburg via Washington, has not yet arrived. We 
are very much afraid it has fallen into the hands of the Rebels, 
as thev made another raid into Maryland last week, and cap- 
tured two trains on their way to Washington. 

I presume vou arc enjoying yourself at the springs;- I 
liope so and that you will come away nuich imi)roved. 



1 On June 26, 1864, the 121st regiment was at the foot of Kenesaw 
Mountain, which Gen. Durhin Ward named "the Valley of Hell." On 
the 27th at 10. A. M. this regiment formed part of the charging column upon 
Kenesaw Mountain, losing in that disastrous assault 164 officers and men. 
killed and wounded. 

2 Rehburg. 

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The Aid Society here has been giving "xA-n Old Folks' Con- 
cert," for the purpose of raising means to purchase materials 
of comfort and necessity for the soldiers. It was quite an affair. 
The toilets and apparel of all were in ye olden style. Some of 
the dresses and garments worn were fifty, seventy-five and one 
hundred years old. Mrs. Lucas wore the wedding-dress, and 
carried the fan of old Mrs. Dr. Norton, ^ and her appearance 
was quite laughable. She looked very funny. Mrs Fry- rep- 
resented Good Queen Bess ; Amanda Wildbahn, the empress 
Josephine, and looked beautiful. The gentlemen — hair pow- 
dered — wore short breeches, knee bands and buckles, long stock- 
ings, (silk, of course?) rufiled shirts and low shoes, the buckles 
of which were silver (?). The appearance of Dr. True, and 
another gentleman, who were dressed alike, was amusing. They 
were very old men, whose hair or wigs, and long cues, and 
whiskers, were white ; they wore large spectacles, and were so 
feeble with age that they trembled and tottered at every step. 
And Dr. True-^ gave out or read aloud, just as in days of yore, 
the lines of the ancient hymns, or melodies, which all sang. The 
hair of the ladies was dressed, and their bonnets, and head- 
gear fashioned, after a style that long since passed away. It 
was an entertainment you would have enjoyed, and I wish you 
could have been there. * * * 

Your time to return is near at hand. How glad we are. 
I want to see you each and all, so much. You seem to have been 
away twenty years. You can scarcely imagine how much 
mother wants to see her absent ones. Sometimes, when she is 
quietly seated, thinking about you all, she says she cannot wait, 
that she must see you. But the time will soon roll round. 

* * * Tell M— — , to write to C . With much love. 

Your sister, Annie. 

1 She was a sister of Orange Johnson, of Columbus, the father of Mrs. 
F. C. Sessions. Mrs. Norton's husband. Dr. Alson Norton, M. D., came 
from Connecticut, in 1820. and settled in Radnor, Delaware county, but 
soon removed to Big Island, in Marion county, where he acquired an ex- 
tensive practice. He died in 1848. His cultured daughter Princess, married 
Mr. E. Percy Copeland of Marion, who became a National Bank President. 

= Wife of Rev. H. B. Fry. 

3 Dr. H. A. True, A. M., M. D., very prominent in the Presbyterian 
church, a practicing physician, a merchant, a banker, a man of humor as 
well OS learning, and a good all-round citizen. Dr. True and James S. 
Reed came to Marion in June, 1839; and on November 2, 1841. in the city 
of New York, the doctor was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth P. Reed. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. AN1)I:KS0N. 

Marion, Ohio, August 2, 1864. 

Dear James: — Yours of the 9th uh. was duly received. I 
am sorry to learn that I'rincie is no better. We always feel like 
following the advice of our physician. I would give it a trial, 
but I have little confidence in it. A cool bracing atmosphere in 
summer, and a warmer climate in winter will do for her all that 
can be done I think. The less medicine the better in my opinion. 
Dr. T. B. Fisher's remedy, which Princie no doubt remembers, 
might be tried. For her affection, climate is the essential thing: 
medicine of little value. 

You allude to the rainy weather you have in Ham- 
burg.i We have had but three rainy days since tbe middle of 
May. We thought at times there would be an entire failure of 
crops, but they have come out astonishingly. Now we need 
rain badly ; the corn to ear requires it ; and so in answer to 
thousands of prayers, we are having a bountiful rain today. 

F A . took dinner witli us on Tuesday. She 

was returning home from the lunatic asylum at Columbus, where 

she had placed her daughter H . Poor thing! She feels 

badly of course, and has my sympathy. 

I believe you have heard that John Ault's estate is insol- 
vent. Col. Gorton his father-in-law, trusted him to keep the 
books, etc., and he did the business so loosely that the colonel 
is broken up too. How very true, we never know what a mer- 
chant is worth until he is dead. 

Col. John W. Shaw,- Mrs. John Gurley's brother-in-law, 
was killed at the battle of Winchester, a few days ago — July 
24th. The hundred days' men are expected home in a few days ; 
but some think the government cannot spare them, and that 
they will have to continue longer in the service. We had a 



1 The precipitation at Hamburg owing- to the proximity of the North 
Sea and the Baltic, is great, and nearly equals that of Ireland. 

2 His last words were, "Welcome, welcome death!" He was lieutenant 
colonel of the 34th O. V. Inf.; a cool, determined. Christian soldier. He- 
was struck in the abdomen by a musket ball, borne from the held by a 
few faithful men, placed in an ambulance, and carried 11 miles to Bunker 
Hill, Berkeley county, "W. Va., where he died. 

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great demonstration here on the 28th of July, on the occasion 
of the reception of the Fourth Ohio. 

O James, liow 1 welcome the days that shorten the time for 
your return, though I know they also shorten the time alloted to 
me. But I don't ask to live always, only so long as I can be 
useful to others. 1 feel that Cora especially needs me. If we 
should be permitted to meet again • — all of us — it will be a 
very happy meeting. Our family is now so small, there are so 
few of us to care for one another, that we should care more 
than ever for each other. 

You wish Mary could write as well as Cora. No danger: 
Mary will progress fast enough. She is three and a half years 
Cora's junior. I do not think Cora could write a letter that 
long ago. Cora has made rapid advancement in music. 
She can now take up a piece of music, and if not too 
complicated, learn it herself without the aid of a teacher, and 
Princie knows it is quite an attainment for one of her years 
who has only had seventy lessons in music. Well I have filled 
my sheet full of nothing. May God preserve you many years. 

Your affectionate mother. 

P. S. — Well Princie, about the baby's name. I like Carl ; 
it can't be nicknamed. Carl Fowler would be very pretty I think. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 3d. 1864. 

My dear Son: — Yours of the 21st ult. received. * * * 
C. R. Fowler came here the 20th ult. and paid me $253.45, the 
interest on his note to that date. Scott Fowler gave his note for 
$3,000 with C. R. as surety. Their notes bear 8 per cent, per 
annum, the interest payable semi-annually. I never dealt with 
more honorable men. C. R. Fowler sold his wool clip of 11,000 
lbs. this summer at $1.00 per lb. Scott F. also sold his clip at 
the same price. Sheep owners are coining money. 

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Dr. Johnson^ is dead. He died last Sunday a week, of 
dropsy brought on l)y irregular hours and exposure in the 
practice of his profession. Till the very last he thought he 
v.'ould get well. J visited him several times before he died, 
and told him that he could not recover, but he alwavs insisted 
that he would get well. Your mother called at his residence 
Saturday evening, and he told her that he would get well. He 
died the next morning at 5 o'clock. 

Our people are now trying to raise recruits for the army 
so as to avoid the draft. Last winter the legislature passed 
an act authorizing townships to levy a tax to pa\- $100 "home 
bounty," to each recruit, and all the townships in the state will 
do it to prevent a draft. So our taxes will be very high. In 
this township they will amount to a large sum. In Pitt town- 
ship, Wyandot county, your taxes are heavy. And incomes now 
pay a tax of 5 per cent where they exceed $600. ► 

We have had hard fighting before Petersburg, Va., and very 
great slaughter, but as yet very little gained. True, Grant under- 
mined one fort and blew it up, but our army could not take the 
place. We may do it yet, Init it will be with great loss of life. 
\'ou will see by the papers that Gen. Sherman is doing well in 
Georgia. My love to Princess and the children. 

Your father, 

T. y. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. .WDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 15, 1864. 

Dear Son : — Your letter of the 29th ult. enclosing one 
to D. S. Miller (which I sent him) came duly to hand. * * * 
Men who do not want to go to war are compelled to ])ay big 

1 Dr. W. C. Johnson, a kind-hearted, honest man, born January 21, 1S08, 
in Harrison county. Oliio, came to Marion in 1834. formed a partnership 
with Dr. J. Tjiving-ston, an uncle of Gen. Henry C. Taylor, of Columbus, 
Ohio, and secured an extensive practice. Before coming to Marion, the 
doctor was a student at Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. He- 
was an able practitioner. He died July 24, 18G4. Dr. Johnson was a 
kinsman of the family of the historian, Hon. William H. Hunter, the able 
editor of the Chillicothe News-Advertiser. The Johnsons were related to- 
the Houses of Mt. Gilead, and to other prominent Ohio families. 

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Tound prices for substitutes. Only such as are exempt from 
the draft can be employed as substitutes. They are aliens, negroes 
and men above 45 years of age. I see by the papers that Bos- 
ton is getting ship loads of Germans who will serve as sub- 
stitutes for three years. They are well paid by the men for' 
whom they serve, receive $100 government bounty, arid get $16.00 
per month, and their food and clothing from the government. 

If the war lasts much longer, all the men in the country 
from 18 to 45 will be called out. Then the old men, women 
and children must do the farming antl other work. I now be- 
lieve the Rebels will fight as long as they have the means to 
:raise armies or guerrilla bands. This their leaders have deter- 
mined on. 

Everything here is very, very high now.^ Butter 30 to 35 
cents. What will it be in Winter? Hay $20, wheat $1.80, 
corn $1.10, oats 75 cents, potatoes $2.00, hams 25 cents, cheese 
20 to 25 cents, ordinary white muslin 75 cents, woolen goods very 
-high. Laborers get $3.00 per day. A man to live must do a good 
business. Farming and wool-growing are the best occupations 
mow. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, xA.ugust 19, 1864. 

Dear Ja]mes- — I suppose that Princie has returned from 
l^ehburg,- as you informed me in yours of the 23d ult. that you 
were going to fetch her back. I hope her sojourn at Rehburg 
has greatly benefited her. If not, I can only say I am sorry, 
and point her to the source of all good for comfort and conso- 
lation. I trust she will cultivate patience and calmness. This 
frame of mind will do much for a person of her temperament. 

^ In the large cities prices were of course much higher for farm products. 

- A celebrated resort in the kingdom of Hanover for invalids. Here 
is the noted Molken Kur, where the patier^ts drink and sometimes bathe 
■'in goat's whey. 



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Gentle excitement in pleasant company, amid attractive or charm- 
ing scenes may henefit her. * * * 

Three days ago Dr. Bridge^ was brought here from Georgia 
a corpse. It is very sad to reflect that so many true patriots are 
falling, but we never for a moment lose faith in the govern- 
ment. We will certainly succeed, though through much trib- 
ulation.' We must do our part, in the atonement for national 
sins, for God knows we have helped to roll the car of slavery 
over three millions of human beings. And why shouldn't we 
atone for such inhumanity, though it require the best blood of 
the nation ? 1 hit the tlevastated Southern homes more strik- 
ingly illustrate the atonement \vhich the people now in arms 
against the government are involuntarily making for their dis- 
loyalty, and long continued enslavement of the blacks. 

- Annie just received a letter from Eugene, in which he 
enclosed two photographs, one of which he requested her to 
forward to vou. Eugene would like to become your secretary 
if you need one. He never thinks I suppose that you are tired 
of foreign life, and are likely to resign. A letter to Eugene 
will reach him addressed as follows : Capt. T. Eugene Tillot- 
son, Co. B, 64th reg. O. V. I., 3d Brig., 2d Div., 4th A. C. 
z'ia Chattanooga, Tcnn., on the march. I wish you would write 
him immediately. This is Lyman's address : Capt. L. Spauld- 
ing, Co. II. I2ist reg. O. V. I., z'ia Chattanooga, Tenn., on 
the march, now near Atlanta, Ga. I have forgotten his division 
and cor])s. but the address is sufficient. I will send you the 
address of Capt. Thomas J. Anderson jr in my next. 

Mrs. Maggie Pollock whose health is very poor, has so often 
invited Annie, that she concluded to make her a visit. She is now 
at her home in Logan county, where she will remain a few days. 
Say to Princie that Eunice Convert^ is in very poor health. We 
are now having warm weather — the warmest in 28 years. May 
God protect you all. 

Your affectionate mother. 



1 Dr. W. W. Bridge, M. D., a surgeon in the army. 

2 Daughter of Col. W. W. Conclvlln, and by many considered the hand- 
somest young married lady in the r-ounty. Rosidi d after marriage in 
Chicago and Colorado. 



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MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 25, 1864. 

Dear J'rincess: — This makes the seventh letter written by 
me today and yesterday. As you are aware I returned some time 
since from Bellefontaine, where I spent two weeks, nearly all 
the time at Mrs. Maggie Pollock's. Your cousin ^Irs. Waters^ 
now lives there, and she invited me to spend an afternoon at 
her home. I had a pleasant time. She is a sweet woman. Her 
husband you know is a Methodist preacher, and Bellefontaine 
is his station. At Mrs. Waters' I met your cousin Miss Re- 
becca Miller- of near Springfield, who was returning home from 
a visit to your sister, Mrs. R. N. Taylor of Wyandot county. 
I found Miss Rebecca very intelligent and agreeable. As it rained 
very hard, I staid all night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Waters,, 
and hence became very well acquainted. She pressed me to visit 
her again upon your return, in company with you. Maggie's 
relatives, the Pollocks, are extremely nice people. They had 
a great deal to say about you, and want us both to visit them 
when you return.-" Your sister Maria, and Miss Jennie Hedges 
(who is now visiting her), will probal)lv visit us soon. We 
should be pleased to see them. Love to all. 

Your atTectionate sister, 

Annie. 

P. S. — I just got a letter from cousin Capt. T. Eugene 
Tillotson, V. S. A., which mother has told you of. I also got a 
letter from his sister, cousin Lizzie. She is very happy and 
thinks her husband has no equal. 

1 Mrs. Elizabeth Waters, wee Banes, daughter of Gen. Horatio and Mrs. 
Mary Miller Banes, grand-daughter of Rev. Robert Miller, son of David, son 
of Robert, is the wife of Rev. Wesley Water."?, A. M., D. D. Mr. and Mrs. 
Waters have one lovely daughter. 

- "Miss Rebecca" is now (1903) Mrs. Joseph F. Humphrey, and as 
one of "the 400" resides in splendor in Colorado Springs. Her husbanu, an 
educated gentleman, is very prominent and wealthy. An only child. Robert 
Guy Humphrey, was married January 15, 1902, to the charming Miss Clare 
Florence Williams of Denver. 

3 Mr. John Pollock, the father-in-law of Mrs. Maggie Pollock, was a 
prominent lawyer in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and a particular friend of Judge 
Thomas J. Anderson. After the Civil War he practiced: law a few years 
in Winchester. Va. 

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MRS. THOMAS j. AN DICKSON TO j A M KS n. A X DICKSON. 

Makion, Ohio, August 29, 1864. 

Mv Deak Son: — Yours of the 6th inst. was duly received. 
Am glad i'rincie has returned feeling better. Hope the treatment 
has been really beneficial. 

The favoraljle war news this morning you \vill have read 
before this reaches yoti. Eugene, who is now a staff officer, 
made another narrow escape lately. The horse under him was 
killed, and the skirts of his coat were torn away by a shell. 
Only the day before he had paid $170 for the horse. A couple 
of days since I received from Charleston, J 11., a letter from my 
sister, Mrs. Ann E. Tillotson. She is well pleased with her new 
son-in-law, Lizzie's husband.^ 

I am sorry to say that Lyman has resigned his captain's 
commission. He had done well, and received many encomiums 
for his soldierly qualities, but when he became sick enough to 
go to the hospital with the enemy in sight, he thought it time 
to resign. 1 think he must regret it now. He might have got 
a sick-leave until he recovered. Some (if the captains have been 
at home for months, drawing their pay all the while. He 
started home, but had to stop a few days at Chattanooga to 
rest, then came on to Nashville, where he again rested. By 
this time he had so far recovered as to think he could go to 
work under cover, and got empolyment in the (piartermaster's 
department. He is getting $75 per month, and board, and may 
do pretty well. I don't like the idea of his losing an office 
he had so fairly earned. If he should desire it, he can probably 
get a commission in one of the new regiments to be recruited ; 
but I don't suppose he could now stand campaigning, as that 
means exposure of every kind. 

1 Mr. J. M. Hogue, a native of Ohio. His wife Elizabeth V. Tillotson, 
was born in Marion, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1838. Her father Samuel Tillotson was 
born in Chenango, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1811, and died in Charleston. 111.. May 
17, 1884. His wife Ann E. Johnson, was born near Steubenville, Ohio, April 
23, 1813, and died in Emporia, Kansas, April 16. 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Tillot- 
son who spent many years in Marion, Ohio, were attached to each other 
by ties of love, and always lived in peace and harmony. He was an in- 
dustrious man of much business capacity, and his many imdortakings turned 
out well and to his advantage. His wife was devoted to her family, and 
though her tastes were domestic, she had a fund of intelligence, and was 
a superior woman in many respects. 

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Tf Princie were to visit one of our stores now, the price of 
goods would probably alarm her. Common calico sells for 55c 
per yard, wool delaines $1.00, common muslin 75 cents, merinos 
$2 to $4, commonest delaine 60 cents, kid gloves, not good, $3.00. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 29, 1864. 

My dear Son : — Yours of the 6th inst. came duly to hand 
on the 26th, enclosing a letter for Mrs. W. Hedges, which I 
forwarded. * * * Col. James H. Godman has received your 
check to pay for the Ohio State Journal one year, including pos- 
tage. I have rented the River Farm for three years, to Hiram 
Stalter and Henry Mourer. They are called good farmers and 
appear like honest men.^ 

I am glad to hear you say you want to return to your own, 
your native land. When we are all at home, there are but few of 
us, and your mother and I are getting old and feeble, and 
cannot remain with you long ; so we ought to spend the few 
days we may be spared, near together. 

I think from present appearances we shall crush out this 
wicked rebellion ere long, notwithstanding there are bitter enemies 
of the Union cause in our own State, and elsewhere in the 
north. There are secret, oath-bound combinations, opposing the 
Union cause, some of which have been detected, exposed, and 
broken up. Arms and ammunition were found in their pos- 
session. Not alone southern Rebels and their northern sympa- 
thizers are at work to break up this Republic, but the aristocracy 
of Europe seem to have combined against us. But by the 
divine blessing we shall prove a match for them all, and come 
out triumphant, with our free institutions unimpaired. 

We expect a dreadful struggle this fall for the Presidency. 
The Great Proslavery Democratic National Convention is in ses- 
sion in Chicago at this time. 

^ stalter and Mourer gave very poor satisfaction, Mourer especially. 

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Tuesday morning, Aug. 30th. We have not heard from the 
Convention, but the behef is that General McClehani wih be 
the Presidential nominee, and that a peace platform will be 
adopted. Vallandigham and his stripe of Copperheads, would 
prefer a man as a candidate who is opposed to the war in tota. 
Pe3'ton Hord- is one of the delegates to the Convention from 
this district. 

Recruiting is now going on here pretty fast. Harry Boyd, 
and William Garrett, who have already served tlie full term 
of three years in the 4th regiment, O. V. I., are now busily 
engaged enlisting men, and will succeed in raising a company 
in this vicinity. 

You need not fear that our government money will continue 
to depreciate. On the contrary we believe that as soon as the 
war is over, it will appreciate and finally become as good as gold. 
Some of it you know bears interest, and it is all a legal tender. 
Our people have full confidence in our government, arid con- 
sequently in greenbacks, (as the government issues are called), 
for the whole resources of the nation are pledged for their re- 
demption. God bless you all, and enable you to return in safety 
to your friends and country. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — I do not know what has been done with the Upper 
Sandusky premises lately occupied l:)y Sylvester Watson,^ nor 
what David Harpster has done with the corner lot in same place, 
latelv occupied as a place of business bv Sam. I'cckman. 

T. J. A. 



1 Gen. Geoi-ge B. McClellan was the most popular soldier ever at the head 
of the U. S. Armies, that is the troops had a greater affection for him. 

2 Hon. Peyton Hord, born in Rockingham county, Va., December 2, 
1816, came to Marion county in 1826 with his parents, and as soon as old 
enough engaged in farming, and in dealing in live stock, especially cattle, 
on a large scale. He was a member of the State legislature (1868-9), 
president of the Marion County Agricultural Society, and held other promi- 
nent positions. He was related to the distinguished Peyton family of Va., 
and was a gentleman of the old school. He died Sept. 23, 1875. 

3 Sylvester Watson, born Feb. 26, 1819, in Verona, N. Y., and who died 
Oct. IG, 1886. was a successful business man, and president of the First 
National Bank of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. His popular widow, Carolyn Kel- 
logg, and beautiful daughter Grace, (who married Mr. Warmcastle of Pitts- 
burg), are still in good health, (1903), and able to enjoy life. His prom- 
ising son Karl N., before fully reaching man's estate, died of consump- 
tion. His son Pliny, a very capable man of stei-ling worth, after amassing 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, (3hio, Monday, September 12. 1864. 

Dear Princie: — I received on Saturday thrDugh the ex- 
press office a small box containing a beautiful breast pin, some 
fine kid gloves, a shell pin, some hair work for Mrs. Taylor, and 
some hair balls for Mrs. Fribley. Please accept many thanks. 
You have laid me under great obligations. The breastpin suits 
me to nicety. The workmanship is exquisite; 'tis rich, 'tis rare. 
But after all 1 must confess it derives its chief value from the 
civer — being a present from you, and containing the hair 
uniquely disposed, of loved ones far away. The nicely wrought 
bouquet in the center is beyond anything conceivable in the line 
of hair work. Libbie Sweney^ almost went into "conniptions" 
over it. She thought it displayed so much art. I shall rarely 
v/ear it, onlv to parties I presume, and they are few and far 
between. The gloves I value : x\nnie is well pleased with hers. 
I will forward Mrs. Taylor's work the first opportunity. Mrs. 
Fribley is well pleased vvith the hair Ijalls. 

1 must close. I am very tired now having been house clean- 
ing all day preparatory to entertaining members of the Confer- 
ence.- I concluded to have it done now, if it is a little early. 
I shall be very busy all this week. Conference sets next, when 
there will be little rest. 

Ever affectionately. 

a fortune as a wholesale grocer at Toledo, Ohio, died comparatively young, 
leaving a widow — Clara Sears Watson — and several children, who moved 
to Pasadena, Cal. Mrs. Clara Sears Watson is the only child of Hon. John 
D. Sears, born Feb. 2, 1821, a man of wealth and superior attainments, 
and the best lawyer that ever practiced at the Upper Sandusky bar. He 
is still (1903) one of the best lawyers in Ohio. 

1 Miss Elizabeth C. Conoklin, eldest daughter of Col. W. W. Concklin, 
became the wife of Dr. Robert L. Sweney, M. D., Sept. 2, 1852. Mrs. 
Sweney died Dec. 26, 1901, and Dr. Sweney January 12, 1902. Mrs. S. 
had been well educated, and when married was accounted one of the beau- 
ties of Marion. 

2 This refers to the Annual Meeting of the Central Ohio Conference of 
tue Methodist Episcopal Church. 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, September 26, 1(864. 

Mv Dear Son : — Yours of September ^d is before me. I 
was very glad to get it, and to learn tbat yoii were all in Ijetter 
health. I have much to say and so little power to say it. Had 
I the pen of a Shakespeare, or the pencil of a Hogarth then I 
might hope to convey my thoughts and impressions, to depict 
scenes now vividly before me, but alas, I have neither, so i)repare 
tc read a poor weak little letter. 

The session of the Central (Jhio Conference closed this 
morning, and tlie last of our company left this afternoon. We 
have had a laborious week : Annie and I have had so much work 
to do ourselves, and I feel this afternoon that I ought to be in 
bed. This letter however I must try to finish in time to catch 
the Hamburg mail-steamer. Princie knows something about what 
it is to entertain a company of strangers six or seven days straight 
ahead, although she has never had such a trial. After all the 
Conference has been no doubt a great benefit to this community. 
The preachers were the guests during their stay of the best 
families in the place. Fry, Bowen, Wallace, Patten. Davids, the 
Smiths, the Reeds, the Johnsons, Scott, Fisher, T'ennett, Hardy, 
and many others who were not memliers. entertained, and were 
pleased with their guests. 

\Ve had a Union mass-meeting in town during Conference 
at which the Governor was present as a speaker. There was 
no session of the Conference the afternoon he spoke that all 

might hear him. He made a fine speech and gave the 

their portion. After the governor^ had spoken, the crowd called 
loudly for Wilson, a brother of Rev. Harvey Wilson and a 
preacher too, who at once ascended the stand and talked about 
ten minutes, administering to the * * * the most withering, 
scathing words of rebuke and denunciation I ever heard fall from 
the li])s of man. Then there were calls for Reid. P.ut few 
knew the stranger. A dignified, intellectual, scholarly looking 
gentleman stood upon the platform. All eyes were upon him. 
Whispered inquiries went through the throng: "Who is he?" 
"Who is he?" He then spoke for his country ten or fifteen 

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minutes in the strongest though most refinel language, and in) 
favor of the administration. You wiU yourself want to know 
who he is. He came from New York City, and is now the 
editor of the Western Christian Advocate. ' He^ preached once 
during the Conference, and it was one of the finest efforts I 
ever listened to. 

I must now commence to talk to Princie. On Saturday, 
in addition to our regular guests, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Gillett,^ 
Bishop Ames,^- and Rev. Dr. Harris^ took dinner with us. The 
same day Mr. Wesley Hedges took supper with us. Mrs. Gillett 
called here this morning, and I gave her the hair-work for Mrs. 
Taylor. I understand that Mrs. T. is in delicate health. I, have 
been expecting to pay her a visit this fall. 

Frincie you perhaps recollect that your friend and teacher 
at Delaware, Miss Rockwell, married again in India. Well the 
gentleman she married, the Rev. James M. Thoburn, is here 
now. I heard him lecture once and preach once during con- 
ference, and I expect to hear him lecture again tonight. He 
is a man of fine talents, and a very fluent, interesting speaker. 
His subject last evening was the resurrection of the body, and 
O, how beautifully he dwelt upon it. His portrayal was indeed 
sublime. 

He spoke of burying his wife away up on one of the slopes 
of the Himalaya mountains, and of planting a rose tree at her 
feet. I wish you could have heard him speak of your departed 
friend in connection with the Resurrection. I never so realized 
that I should meet my children in the body, in health and beauty, 
when "t]]is mortal shall have put on immortality," and "death 
is swallowed up in victory," as I did at that hour. 

1 Rev. John M. Reid, D. D., born in N. Y. City, in 1820, graduated from 
the Univer.sity of New York in 1839; admitted to New Yorlc Conference 
in 1844, and preached in Connecticut, Long Island, and New Yorlv City; 
18.58 to 1864 President of Genesee College, N. Y.; 1864-1868 Editor Western 
Christian Advocate; 1868-1872 editor Northwestern Christian Advocate; 
1872-1888 Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society; 1888 until his 
death in 1896. Honorary Secretary of the Missionary Society. 

- These friends, formerly of Ohio, livisd in New York City. 

» Rev. Edward R. Ames, D. D., LL,. D., Bishop of the M. E. Church, 
a very eloquent preacher, was born in Ohio, May 20, 1806, and died in 
April 1879. 

* Rev. William L. Harris, D. D., LL. D. Bishop of the M. E. Church, 
was a professor at the O. W. University for eight years. He was born Nov. 
4. 1817. near Mansfield, Ohio, and died Sept. 2, 1887, in New York City. 

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As I was going to write you, I thought you would like to 
learn soniethmg more from Mr. Thoburn about his deceased 
wife, so I called at the residence of Mr. Dales^ where he is 
staying to see him, Ijut he was not in, having been invited to 
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Reed's to dinner.- 

During the Conference we have had the most tremendous 
congregations. The pressure has l)een so great it would have 
been very unpleasant had the weather not been cool. 

27th. Last evening 1 heard Mr. Thoburn on the manners 
and customs or India, was afterwards introduced, enjoyed a short 
talk, and spoke to hiui of your friendship for his deceased wife 
(Miss Rockwell). He said he had often heard her speak of her 
friend Miss Princess Miller, who attended school at Delaware, 
and wished me to say to you that his wife died a triumphant 
death. She left a son four weeks old who will be two years old 
next month. He brought his son home from India, and he is 
now at the home of his deceased wife's father near Chicago. 
He will return to India in January. I think him remarkably 
adapted to missionary work. May God have you in His holy 
keeping. Your affectionate mother. 

P. S. — The babe of Mr. and ]\Irs. J. Fribley died on the 
1 2th inst. The poor little thing was always a sufferer. 

The Conference has given us a new minister. Professor 
George Mather, who has been the guest during the Conference 
of Rev. H. B. Fry. 

1 Rev. I.. J. Dales tlie pastor of the M. E. Church at Marion. 

2 Rev. James M. Thoburn was born in Ohio, March 7, 1836, graduated 
from Alleghany College in 1857. and was appointed a missionary to India 
In 1859. In 1864 he was at home on furlough, and attended the Conference 
at Marion. He is an eloquent speaker, and in India preaches in English 
and in the Hindoostanee language. He is enthusiastic in his work and very 
successful. At the General Conference of the M. E. Church in 1888, he 
was elected a Missionary Bishop. He is the author of several very readable 
books that relate to his missionary experience. Miss S. M. Rockwell, for- 
merly a teacher in the Ohio Wesleyan Female College at Delaware, and a 
most charming young lady, went to India as a missionary, and there be- 
came the wife of Mr. Thoburn. But death soon terminated her happiness, 
for she died in November, 1862. 



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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, September 2"], 1864. 

My Dear Son: — * * * Mr. Lincoln will be re-elected 
President ; of tins \vc now feel certain ; McClellan stock is low. 

Tlie draft has just taken place in our county. Marion and 
several other townships having made up their quotas escaped ; 
but Pleasant, Ijig- Island, and Green Camp, "caught it heavy." 

We have the finest weather you ever saw, and the best 
fall pasture. The corn crop is good. We have had no frost 
to injure anything. W. Hedges^ and D. Harpster- both want 
to rent "The Rolling Plain." 

(jold is coming down and I think that greenbacks will soon 
be as good as gold, especially those that bear interest. Govern- 
ment stocks go up as gold comes down. 

Our old friend George W. Beery''* of Upper Sandusky, 

1 A prominent stock grower. 

* The wealthiest farmer, and most prominent wool-grower and flock- 
master in Ohio. 

" Hon. George W. Beery, of Virginia descent, was born near Bremen, 
Fairfield county, Ohio. July 1. 1822, and died at Upper Sandusky. June 16, 
1S85. He was a prominent lawyer, and became president of the "Wyandot 
County Bank, (of which he was the founder), the predecessor of the Com- 
mercial National Bank of Upper Sandusky. His wife. Ann Joy McDonald, 
a noble, generous lady, was born at Circleville, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1822, and 
died at Upper Sandusky, May 10, 1892. Their only son George W. Beery, 
Jr., (an investment banker), was born at Upper Sandusky, July 31, 185C. 
Of all the Beerys in the country — and there are hundreds — George is be- 
lieved to be the most experienced traveler, the most brilliant conversation- 
alist, and the most popular with "fair women and brave men." His inti- 
mate friend was the late President McKinley. to whom he bore (it is said) 
a striking resemblance. When Major McKinley was governor of Ohio, he 
gave Mr. Beery the following splendid letter of recommendation, which will 
remain an heirloom in the Beery family for a thousand years or thereabout, 
for none of the race ever Vjefore or since received such a ti'ibute from so 
high a source. 

"Executive Department, 

"Columbus, Ohio, February 7th, 1895. 
"V'o IF/iooi // !/</// ('Diifcni: 

"T!ie l)enr(i- of this lottei'. Mr. George W. Beery, of Upper Sandusky, 
Oliio, lias been known to me for many years. He has been in the bank- 
ing and insurance business in Upper Sandusky, is a gentleman of good 
standing and excellent character. I am sure he will fill any position for 
which he applies with credit and satisfaction. I join with his many 
friends in Oliio in recommending him to those who desire the services 
of one possessing his ability and aptitude. "Wm. McKinley." 

George V^'. Beerys good revolutionary blood, makes him eligible to 
membership in tlie great patriotic Society of the Sons of tlie American 
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an out and out Republican, passed throu^li here last week. He 
is very sanguine of the election of Lincoln and Johnson hv a 
large majority. My love to Princess and the sweet little chil- 
dren. God bless you ail. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — The Central Ohio Conference, over which Bishop 
Edward R. Ames, D. D., presided, adjourned yesterday. 



THOMAS J. ANDEl^SON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, October lo, 1864. 

Dear Son: — Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the day of our state 
election, and if I get the returns in time will send you the result 
on Wednesday. Our armies of late have been verv successful, 
and we are forcing the Rebels into a very narrow com])ass. 
They certainly cannot hold out nuich longer. They are trying 
their utmost to hold (-ut, hoping that McCIellan mav be elected 
President instead of Lincoln. The Rebels and their symjiathizers 
all favor the election of McCIellan. But tomorrow -will tell the 
story in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. We believe these states 
will g'o all right to-morrow and in Novemlier. You may think 
me very warm in the cause, but I am none too warm. Every 
man has his influence, and I trust I will always be found u])hold- 
ing the stars and stripes of the .Vmerican L^nion. 

( )ur candidate for Auditor of INLarion eountv is John R. 
Knapp, jr.^ His opponent is Wm. Cricket,- who is seeking a 
third term. The votes of the soldiers in the iield may determine 
the result, and must be returned to the county clerk's office within 
30 days. 

James R. Hubbell of Delaware, is our candidate f )r Con- 
g^ress. Wm. Jolmson of Mansfield, who two years ago defeated 
Col. James LI. Godman for Congress, is the Democratic candi- 
date. We now expect to elect Hubbell. 



1 John R. Knapp, Jr., was born in N. Y. state. May 4, 1824. came to 
Marion with his parents in 1S.'16, founded the "Marion Mirror," and tlie 
"Bucyrus Forum." was an active Democrat for many years, was clerk of 
the Marion county coui-ts. and clerlt of tlie Stnte Senate for several years, 
and was a Union soldier throughout the Civil "War and a Republican. 

= William (^rickett wa.s three terms county auditor — ISfiO to 1S66. 

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Last Saturday we elected in Marion township three UnioiT 
men justices of the peace: John Moore, John Hardy, and John 
C. Johnston. The democrats ran Ma j. George H. Busby ,^ their 
their strongest man, but (without the vcntes of our soldiers) he 
was beaten 2^ votes. 

I sent your letter to R. N. Taylor. I am glad you and 
Princess refused to sell him the Rolling Plain. His offer was 
a very poor one at this time, or indeed any other time. That 
farm v.'ill always sell, and if for sale now David Harpster would 
like to buy it. I told him it was not for sale. 

D. S. Miller has not been in town since a short time after 
his return from Europe. I presume he is very busy, as he is 
now in partnership with Sam. Hedges- buying stock. 

John W. Bain is selling his property, and intends going to 
New York to live. He is getting to be a very restless man. 
He is going there to engage in the manufacture of agricultural 
implements on a large scale. I am afraid John will rue it. 
Things are high now Imt must shortly take a great tumble, caus- 
ing failures right and left. Fred P. Seffner bought the John 
Ault homestead, and sold his own to Mr. H. S. Lncas.^ 

Your uncle John Anderson and family are as well as usual.. 
His son Francis M., of Crestline, now route or mail agent from 
Crestline to Chicago, was lately drafted. His health is so poor 
that he will secure a substitute. The prices paid vary from 
six hundred to fifteen hundred dollars. 

Tuesday morning, October irth. This is a very fine day 
for the election, and having voted, I now proceed to finish this 
note. I hope and believe the LTnion cause will prevail throughout 
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, at the polls this day. It will 
give great strength to our army, and discourage the Rebels. If 
we are successful to-day, and elect our Congressmen in the loyal 
states, then on the 8th day of November we will elect Mr. Lin- 
coln, President, and Mr. Johnson, Vice President. After that 

1 Maj. Busby, had been in Congress, and held other high offices. 

2 S. B. Hedges was many years a tenant on one of D. S. Miller's 
farms; afterwards went to "the East Liberty Stock Yards" and sold live 
.stock; he died of brain disease July 17, 1S97. He was an upright man. but 
never accumulated much property. His daughter, Mrs. Frank Tallmadge, 
and son Benson, live in Columbus. Benson was married August 12. 1903. 
at Westbrook, Conn., to Miss Jennie Ackley, — Rev. Sam Hart officiating. 

3 I^ucas A: Seffner were prominent merchants in Marion. 

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the Southern Confetleracv will soon tojiiile and fall. Look out 
for very good news soon, ddic I'nion will be preserved, (iod 
lio doubt designs to pindfy this Republic, to make us willing to 
be a just people, to do unto others as we would that they should 
do unto us, and to wipe out the curse of human slavery in all 
the land. Accept my love. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

F. S. — Kiss Mary, James T. and Charley, for grandfather. 
Tell them that grandfather looks for them all home next spring. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, October lo. 1864. 

Dear Princie: — I duly received your letter of 14 June 
written on the eve of your departure for Rehberg, the bathing 
place, and thought I had acknowledged it. I also received a 
good letter ^frorn you of the 3d of September. I received yours 
of the 14th ult., explaining a little conversation between you and 

, in reference to . O Princie don't entertain 

any unpleasant feelings about it. I know • was a little 

hurt when she read it, but she did not say a word. Now she 
doesn't care anything at all al)out it. She loves you dearly, and 
does not cherish a hard thought. Never allow yourself to think 
of it again. * * * 

In about two hours from now it will be just two years since 
vou came home. Poor Virgil was then here and went to the 
depot to meet you. Last Friday was just one year since he 
died. And so we must all go. Every beating i)ulse we tell, 
counts the number less. O, may we all be prepared for that 
Great Day for which all other days were made. Good night. 
May our heavenly Father have you in His holy keeping. 

Your affectionate mother. 



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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDiiRSON. 

Marion, Ohio, October 12, 1864. 

Dear Son : — Yesterday I promised you the earliest elec- 
tion returns. We have heard ejiough to know that the Union 
party has carried the State by thirty to forty thousand without 
the soldier vote. In the present Congress we have but five 
Re])ublican members. Now v/e have surely elected fourteen and 
probably seventeen members. S. S. Cox^ of Columbus, was 
beaten by Sam'l Shellabarger, Unionist- of Springfield. In 
Cincinnati, we have elected both of our Congressmen. In our 
own county we w^ere beaten about 290 votes ; but "the soldier 
vote" may elect our ticket. Indiana gives the Union ticket 
20,000 majority. Gov. Aiorton was re-elected. Pennsylvania is 
all right. So you see our government is safe. Mr. Lincoln will 
carry these states in November by still larger majorities. So we 
need not despair. "The soldier vote" will swell Ohio's Union 
majority to eighty or one hundred thousand. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, October 16, 1864. 

Dear Princess : — I received your interesting letter of the 
/th ull. You fear your letters will not interest me because they 



1 Hon. Samuel S. Cox, popularly known as "Sun Set" Cox, was born in 
Zanesville, Ohio, in 1824, graduated at Brown University in 1846, was a 
member of Congress from the Columbus district, 1857-65, and from N. Y. 
city, 1869-1875. He was a popular speaker and writer, and published "The 
Buckeye Abroad." "Eight Years in Congress," "Three Decades of Federal 
Legislation," and other works. He was U. S. Minister at Constantinople 
for some time. He was kind hearted, very obliging, companionable, and 
honest. He died Sept. 10, 1889. I knew him well. 

2 Hon. Samuel Shellabarger was a lawyer of great ability; born in 
Clark county, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1817: died ' August 6, 1896, in Washington, D. 
C. and was buried at Springfield. He was a member of the 37th, 39th, 40th 
and 42d Congress. His speech on the right of President Lincoln to suspend 
the writ of habeas corpus was a masterly effort — scholarly, logical, and 
luminous. An eminent Ohio soldier and statesman, J. Warren Keifer, wrote 
me several eulogistic letters of his fellow-townsman Samuel Shellabarger, 
which, if I had the space I should like to publish. 

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lack news. They ahvays interest all of ns. no matter what they 
contain. * * * Old Mr. Baker^ is dead ; was buried last 
Sunday the ytli inst. Mrs. Isaac Young- was l)uried the same 
day. * * * Some old friends have been paying- me visits. 
Miss Eva Evans spent last week with me, and Mrs. Maggie Pol- 
lock and her sister-in-law staid four days. Love to all. 

Yours affectionately, 

Annie. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, October 23, 1864. 

My Dear Son: — Yours of the ist inst. received yesterday, 
is a very good letter, and fully appreciated. I am glad you 
made the trip up the Rhine, and had so |)leasant a time. I should 
have enjoyed the trip very much myself, even at my advanced 
age. I am sorry that Princess did not accompany you, but 
the state of her health might have neutralized all the enjov- 
ment. I never had the privilege of traveling (i. e. in foreign 
countries), but always had an intense desire to do so. Eew 
would enjoy it more. 1 hope mv children will embrace the 
opportunity when oft'ered. Annie will send for the book on 
Heidelberg which you wished her to read. 

^ Hon. E)ber Baker, the founder of Marion. Always kind hearted and 
generous, his fortune at the lime of his demise was small. His descendants 
as a rule have not shown any remarkable ambition or aptitudes. His great 
granddaughter Genevra Johnston, daughter of J. C. Johnston, a prominent 
lawyer, is a famous singer. 

2 Isaac Young, was born March 2.3, 1823, was educated in a country 
school, in Marion, and at the O. W. University. He became a civil engi- 
neer, and has held several important offices. His son Harry R., held lucra- 
tive county offices, and was a candidate on the Democratic state ticket for 
Clerk of the Ohio Supreme Court in 1901. Harry was born in Marion 
April 24, 1860, is now an influential resident of Cleveland, Ohio, and is 
prominently identified with the construction of Electric Interurban Rail- 
ways. His grandfather Christian Young, father of Isaac, came from Penn- 
sylvania, and was one of the early settlers of Marion county. He was a 
local preacher, but resided on his farm a short distance south of Marion, 
where he died in 1874 at the age of 86. 

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You doubtless will have heard of Sheridan's splendid victor- 
ies^ before this reaches you. They give the loyal people of the 
country great joy, and foreshadow the result. 

John D. Brown called here this afternoon, made many in- 
-quiries about you, talked of old times, etc. He is now on his 
way to Keokuk, Iowa, with one of his children. He says he is 
in the leather trade ; and at work upon a new invention whereby 
.machinery is propelled by a gas engine. The gas used is gener- 
ated as it is consumed, rendering it a very cheap motive power. 
But in truth I have very little confidence in his speculations. 
He has already applied for a patent, and expects it to make 
his name famous. I was inclined to tell him- that I thought 
it would turn out about like the "A. & B. Water-proof Black- 
mg" enterprise. 

John W. Bain has gone to New York to embark in a busi- 
ness he knows nothing about. He will be swamped I fear, and 
be willing to settle down in Marion at last. New Yorker sharpers 
like to get hold of a man from the country who has money, and 
John has considerable. 

I hope you will continue in good health, and be stronger 
when you return than ever. Only one gloomy winter to pass, 
and then if we all live we shall meet again. I live in anticipa- 
tion of a most pleasant reunion. What time shall we look for 
you? About June I should say, unless you stay to travel. This 
1 \\ould do if 1 were in your place, for you will hardly ever have 
so good an opportunity. Your affectionate mother. 

1 The battle of Winchester, sometimes called the battle of Opequon, 
fought Sc-pt. 19, 1864, the battle of Fisher's Hill, fought Sept. 22, 1S64, and 
the battle of Cedar Creek, fought Oct. 19, 1864, in which defeat was turned 
into victory. These victories of Sheridan, over Early, and Sheridan's famous 
ride from Winchester, were full of romance and brilliance, and formed the 
most picturesque episodes of the Civil War. They were celebrated in song 
and story, and made Sheridan the hero of the period. These successes how- 
ever were accomplished at great cost. During the campaign in the Shenan- 
doah Valley, the Union losses were 1,938 killed; 11,893 wounded; 3,121 cap- 
tured or missing; a total of 16,952. The Confederate losses cannot be ac- 
curately stated owing to the customary looseness of Confederate reports. 

~ When John D. Brown and the writer of these footnotes were little 
"boys, we were jointly interested in a Water Proof Blacking, from which 
we expected great financial results; but we were grievously disappoijited, 
and many a hearty laugh my mother enjoyed at our expense. William 
Brown, the father of John D., was a great mathematician, one of the most 
.skillful in ,the State, and the son inherited this talent, and the father's 
■eccentric genius. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMF.S 11. ANDKRSON. 

Marion, Ohio, October 24, 1864. 

My Dear Princie: — Yours of the 30tli ult. was received 
and read with much pleasure. It gives us much joy to learn 
that you are in the enjoyment of good health, a boon none will 
prize more than yourself after the afflictions you have endured. 
I trust that your health will now continue good. Week before 
last Mr. Anderson visited Upper Sandusky on business, and Mrs. 
Taylor and children^ returned with him, and s])ent a week with 
us. We were glad to see them, and I think they enjoyed their 
visit. A\niile she was here we attended a dinner party at Mrs. 
T. H. Dickerson's. wdiere we met Mr. and Mrs. Judge Bartram 
and other friends. In returning calls, Annie accompanied Mrs. 
Taylor. 

We value the pictures of the children sent us, and think 
them extremely good. The position of little James is good, and 
his appearance quiet and natural. Mr. A. and Annie are de- 
lighted with them. Does the babe- look like Mary or James? 



1 Maria M. Miller, married Robert N. Taylor, son of the late David Tay- 
lor of Columbus. Their children now living are: David Miller Taylor, born 
July 6, 1S58. He married Phoebe Gary Hamilton, May S, 1889. Henri 
Selsor Taylor, born February 26, 1869; married Addie Catherine Lisle, 
October 12. 1803. Mabel Bent Taylor, born November 14, 1872, married 
April 3, 1894, Frank Rail, who was born October 31, 1870. They have two 
children. The oldest is Sidney Taylor Rail, born January 27, 1895; Joseph 
Nelson Rail was born July 16. 1900. Henri and Addie Taylor have three 
children: Howard Selsor, born April 11, 1895; Fannie Elizabeth, born 
February 11, 1897; and Gary, born November 4, 1898. Mrs. Robert N. Taylor, 
a superior woman, was born November 21, 1835; she died April 1, 1874. 

Robert N. Taylor, who is still living-, was born on his father's farm July 
11, 1829. He is the son of David, the son of Robert, the son of Mat- 
thew, the son of Matthew. The last named Matthew Taylor — a member of 
a good Scotch-Irish family — came from the north of Ireland, probably 
County Londonderry, in 1722, and settled near Londonderry, now Derry, in 
New Hampshire. The Taylors removed from New Hampshire in 1763, to 
Nova Scotia, but returned to the United States in 1806, and settled in 
Ohio. Robert N. Taylor's grandfather, Robert, built a frame house on 
his farm in Truro township, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1807, which is still 
in use and in good condition; and his father David Taylor, after marry- 
ing Miss Nancy T. Nelson, the mother of Robert N.. in the fall of 1826, 
built a frame house on his farm in the same township, which is standing, 
and well preserved. David Taylor was born in Nova Scotia. July 24, 1801, 
was married three times (to three cousins), and died in Columbus, Ohio, 
July 29, 1889. leaving eight children to inherit about $700,000. He was a 
man of enterprise, of courage, of great physical strength, grand in ap- 
pearance, most hospitable, and an excellent citizen. 

" Charles Finley Anderson. 

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Grandma thinks she will call him Carl, when he comes home,, 
for it is such a pretty name. 

It is now 8 o'clock, A. m., and Cora is np-stairs practicing, 
as it is not yet school time. She has made great proficiency ; it 
would astonish you. She can take a new piece of music that is 
not very difficult, and without assistance, from her own knowl- 
edge of the science, soon learn to play it. And I think this is a 
good deal to say of one her age,^ whose opportunities have been 
limited. She says, "I wish Mary was here ; I should like to 
teach her, for I can teach as far as I have gone." And I be- 
lieve she could. But after all she has only just commenced tO' 
acquire a knowledge of music which you know is a deep and 
intricate science. She has passed some of the stages of drudgery, 
and the light she has will encourage her to press on. It is my 
intention to give her a thorough musical education, not neglect- 
ing other branches, nor indeed anything else that will tend to 
make her a useful and happy member of society. I wish she 
had the opportunity of learning to speak and write the French 
and German while young. 

1 wish you were here to see the gorgeous appearance of 
our Center street niaples. I think they were never so attractive, 
nay grand. The rich and beautiful foliage reflects all the shades 
of green, red and yellow; I might almost say of all the primary 
colors. 

AIv niece Mrs. Lizzie Tillotson Hogue, who has recently 
written us a long interesting letter, has gone to housekeeping 
and thinks she is immensely happy. Mrs. Theo. Dickerson, and 
Mrs. H. B. Fry are expecting letters from you. Mary Ellen 
Peters was united in marriage a few days ago to Will. Camp. 

I was greatly interested in what James had to say in his 
last, about his friends, Mr. William Ward, and Col. Maxse, 

1 Ten years old. 

2 Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse, governor of the island of 
Heligoland, the son of James Maxse of Effingham Hill, Surrey, and Car- 
oline, daughter of the fifth earl of Berkeley, was born in 1832, and entered 
the British army June 1, 1S49, as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. 
On June 11, 18.52, he was transferred to the 13th light dragoons, and on 
July 6th, to the 21st foot. He became a captain in the Coldstream Guards, 
December 29, 1853, and in the same year was ordered to the Crimea. He 
served throughout tlie war on the staff of the Earl of Cardigan, was present 
at the Alma, Balaclava, (where he was wounded), and the siege of Sevas- 
topol, and won the Crimean medal and clasps, besides Turkish medals, and' 

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Governor of the island of Heligoland. Their positions, and family 
connections, and Col. Maxse's rare experience, make them de- 
sirable acquaintances. May God grant you all health, happiness, 
and a safe return. 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, November 7, 1864. 

My Dear Son: — This morning I gave your father an Ad- 
vocate to send to you, in which appears a letter from Bishop 
Thomson,! who is traveling in Europe, and I think it very in- 
teresting. Herewith find a speech of Hon. Thomas Ewing,- 
which will interest you very mucli. 

Well tomorrow is the twentieth Presidential election, a day 
fraught with most momentous consequences to the nation. We 
are on the eve of an election the importance of which it would 
be impossible to overrate. Yesterday we were forcibly reminded 

the decoration of the fifth class of the Medjidie. In 1855 he became a 
major. In 1S63 he was promoted to be a lieutenant colonel. Retiring from 
the army he went to Heligoland, an island near the mouth of the Elbe, in 
1863 as lieutenant governor, and was appointed governor in 1864. Under 
Governor Maxse, Heligoland made great advancement. In 1881 he was 
appointed governor of Newfoundland. He died at St. John's September 
10. 1883. He was popular in Germany, wliere he married a daughter of 
Herr von Rudloff. See Maxse's English translation of Prince Bismarck's 
Letters to his wife and sister. He was one of "the Six Hundred" in "the 
charge of the light brigade," (Oct. 25, 1854). at Balaclava, immortalized 
by Tennyson. No braver knight ever rode "Into the valley of death," 
than this bright, modest, unassuming young Englishman, whose noble and 
generous traits of character I shall always remember. His son, B. G. B. 
Maxse, C. M. G., F. R. G. S., British Consul at Reunion, since 1900, is 
heir presumptive to the Barony of Berkeley. 

1 Edward Thomson, D. D., LL. D., born in England, October 12, 1810, 
came to the United States in 181?, became president of the O. W. Uni- 
versity in 1846, and bishop of the M. E. Church in 1864. His wife was a 
daughter of Governor M. Bartley. The cultured and talented wife of Hon. 
T. E. Powell of Columbus, is their daughter. 

2 Thomas Ewing, LL. D., a statesman, was born in Virginia, December 
28, 17S9, and graduated from Ohio University in 1815, receiving the first 
degree of A. B. ever conferred in the state. He carrT^ to t'^e bq- ri 191'',.. 
was U. S. Senator from Ohio 1831-37 and 1850-51, Secretary of the Treasury 
under President W. H. Harrison, and Secretarj'' or the Interior under Pres- 
ident Taylor. Pie was the father of Gen. Thomas Swing, father-in-law 
of Gen. "W. T. Sherman, and the ablest lawyer that ever lived in Ohio. 
He died October 26, 1871. 

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of our duty to our country by Professor Mather. After preach- 
ing^, and before pronouncing the benediction, he rose in his pulpit 
and solemnly asked the congregation to pray much till after the 
election. You will think it a singular request. We do not ; we 
see and so deeply feel the perils of the country. 

Some fear the result of the election, but 1 do not. It is I 
think an insult to the intelligence and patriotism of the Ameri- 
can people, to entertain any serious doubt as to the issue of the 
contest. Unless the ])eople have lost their senses, Mr. Lincoln 
will be re-elected, and in my opinion the loyal people have never 
given better evidence of sobriety, firmness and rectitude of pur- 
pose. But tomorrow will be remembered by many as the critical 
epoch of our National Life. Shall we be a great nation, or shall 
we be divided by warring factions into petty states? That is the 
question. Ihit why am I thus running on? Long before this 
reaches you, the telegraph will have told you all. 

\Vell, your father just came in with the Hamburg mail. In 
it 1 find good letters to Cora, two to your father, none to mother : 
and* copies of vour diplomatic correspondence, which I shall read 
as soon as this is written. Singular that the Hamburg authori- 
ties should arrest one of our dignitaries, but I suppose it was 
for the unintentional violation of a law of that state. It was 
lucky for him that you were there. ^ 

The Broad Gauge railroad is now finished, and the cars are 
running through Marion. There is one passenger train daily 
each way. Capt. John B. Williams starts west this week to en- 
gage in business. 

We are all well but Cora. She looks pale, but does not com- 
plain. She is not at all rugged. She now attends school, and 
takes one music lesson a week instead of two as she did all 
summer. Two would require her to practice more than would 
now be good for her health. She brings her books home every 
night to study. She will become like her father, a fine scholar. 

Tell Marv, grandma wants her to learn a good deal of Ger- 
man, and French, so that she can teach Cora when she comes 



1 This refers to the arrest, while passing through Hamburg, en route 
to Washington, of the U. S. Minister-Resident at Stockholm. Col. Jacob S. 
Haldeman, of Harrisbui'g, Pa. As it was in violation of international law. 
I soon secured his discharge. 

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home, and Cora will teach her music. Tell little Jamie that 
Cora thanks him ver\- much for the steamship. She will write 
him and 'Slary a letter in a few days. 

Thomas J. Anderson^ has been sick in hospital for some 
time. He is now at the home of his sister Miner\-a, in War- 
saw, Ind.. quite sick. These camp fevers are ver}- dangerous. I 
hope he will get well. He is a good soldier. My dear children : 
may God have you in His holy keeping, may His meny over- 
shadow vou. Your affectionate mother. 



COL. JACOB S. HALDEMAX. U. 5. MIXISTER-RESIDEXT. 

On the evening of the 4th of October. 18r>4. 1 received the follow- 
ing note from Hon. J. S. Haldeman. U. S. Minister-Resident to Sweden 
and Xorwa^-. who was then at a hotel in Hamburg, with his wife and 
children : 

JACOB S. HALDEMAX TO JAMES H. AXDERSOX. 

"My De.\r Consul: — I wish to see you immediately - -rant 

matters personal to myself. Your friend. 

H.^LLiEilAX." 

I caiied on Col. Haldeman at once, and the following dispatch to the 
Secretary" of State will explain his unpleasant situation : 

JAMES H. AXDERSOX TO V. ILLIAM H. SEWARD. 

United States Coxsui_a.te, 
Xo. 32-5. Hambusg, October 7, 1864. 

Sis: — I have t! .o inform you that Mr. J. S. Haldeman, 

Minister-Resident of the United States at Stockholm, having been re- 
called by the President, and having obtained his passports from the ilin- 
ister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, was on his way back to our coun- 
tr\'. when on the 4th inst.. he was sued, and arrested in this place by 
order of the Court of Commerce, as the indorser of a bill of exchange, 
drawn in Stockholm, and protested for non-acceptance — (before due>. 
}klr. H. ha\-ing tried inefteciually to get released, sent me a pressing 
note to visit him. which I did. On the evening of the same day I 
called — as it was too late to see the S>-ndicus for Foreign Affairs — 
on the head of the Police Depanmeni. Senator Petersen, spoke of the 
arrest of Minister Haldeman. presented the facts in the case, read to 

- Capt. Thomas J. Anderson. Jr.. was at the home of his brother-in- 
law. Major J. H. Carpenter, afterwards one of the judges of the Circuit 
Court of Indiana. 

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him from Wheaton on International Law, and requested the discharge 
of the retiring diplomat. He could not dismiss the proceeding he said^ 
but would call off the officers guarding the prisoner if I would give my 
word that Mr. H. would not leave the city before 4 o'clock P. M. of the 
5th inst. 

Mr. H. agreed that I might so pledge my word, and it having been 
done he was after that at large. The Senator immediately wrote to the 
president of the Court of Commerce on the subject, and thereupon on 
the 5th inst., about 'J o'clock p. m., Mr. H. was allowed to proceed on 
his journey, the action against him having been dismissed on the ground 
that Mr. Haldeman having been a Minister-Resident of the United States, 
was entitled by the law of nations to return to his own country in security 
and peace. 

Mr. H. in entering his name on the hotel register here, did not state 
his profession. This the senator claimed made it at least doubtful whether 
Mr. H. had the right to avail himself of the privileges of his publici 
character. He should have announced his coming, and his presence, and 
not doing so perhaps lost him his diplomatic advantages. 

I remarked that if such a doctrine ever prevailed, it was long since 
exploded, that the coming of an ordinary diplomat was not now as in 
the olden time announced by couriers and heralded in a loud and showy 
manner, that on the contrary he now traveled in a quiet unostentatious 
way, and that the right of unobstructed transit through a state, especially 
in time of peace, was always implied if not denied. "And," I continued, 
"to make known at hotels one's high station was not now very common, 
as it always caused heavy additions to hotel bills." This view of the 
case the senator seemed to assent to. 

I believe Mr. H. was treated pretty well while in the custody of the 
bailiff. Before leaving the city Mr. Haldeman requested me to protest 
in his name against his arrest and detention. Accordingly I sent the en- 
closed note and protest to the Syndicus for Foreign Affairs. 

I requested Senator Petersen to give me a copy of the proceedings in 
the case, and the enclosure in German is the transcript sent me. I called 
on the senator twice, and it gives rne great pleasure to say that on both 
occasions I was treated, as I have uniformly been by that officer since 
my residence here, in the most frank, cordial and gentlemanly way, con- 
vincing me, by his words and his deeds, that the object nearest his 
heart is to do right, and to prevent any encroachment on the rights of 
the people of other states. 

Mr. Haldeman bore himself with great dignity all the while, not- 
withstanding his situation was very trying, as his family were with him, 
and it had become noised abroad that he was in 'durance vile.' * * * 

Begging you to instruct me what course to pursue in future in this 
case, I have the honor to remain, 

Your obedient servant, 
Hon. William H. Seward, J. H. Anderson, 

Secretary of State, Washington. U. S. Consul. 

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COL. J. S. IIALDEMAN TO J. H. ANDKRSOX. 

Before Col. Haldeman's departure from Hamburg: (on Oct 5, 1864), 
he sent me the following note and 'Notice' : 

"Dear Anderson : I enclose a Notice for the authorities of Ham- 
burg. I authorize yon to copy, amend, alter, at your discretion. 

In haste, your friend, 

J. S. Halde.man." 

COL. J. S. HALDEMAN TO THE GOVERNMENT OF HAMBURG. 
NOTICE.' 

I have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by the authorities of 
Hamburg, in violation of all international law. My personal security, 
guaranteed by civil law, has been violated by the Free City of Hamburg, 
a city that exists as an independent power by a strict observance of 
all law, for which she receives the respect of nations. For this personal 
indignity, and insult to the entire American nation, I hold the city of 
Hamburg responsible, and will through the government at Washington 
demand damages. I was Minister-Resident of the United States at the 
•court of Stockholm, was recalled by the President of the United States, 
was traveling in my diplomatic character, and when arrested produced 
my passport, and claimed my privileges; all was of no avail. 

Yours with respect, 

J. S. Haldeman, 
Minister of the U. S. A., en route for America. 

Hamburg, October 5, 1864. 



JAMES H. ANDERSON TO COL. JACOl! S. HALDEMAN. 

U. S. Consulate, 

Hamburg, October 6, 1864. 
My Dear Mr. Haldeman : — Herewith please find a copy of the pro- 
test I have sent to the Syndicus for Foreign Affairs, together with a 
•copy of a letter which accompanied the same. As your "Notice" was 
written in great haste, I availed myself of your request to "alter and 
amend it at my discretion." I hope it will suit you. I endeavored to 
place your case fairly and squarely on record, and at the .same time 
use temperate language. Thel'e were a few facts I needed, which you 
could have supplied, namely: the date of your recall, the date of your 
passport from the Swedish government, the length of time you were in 
custody, etc., but these will all come out when the case is finally heard. 



1 This is a copy of the "notice" left with me by Col. Haldeman, but 
before sending it to the Hamburg Mini.ster of Foreign Affairs T modified 
it in many respects. I have no copy of the one I sent, but it was polite 
and respectful in tone, language, and .style. 

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And now allow me to say that I never saw a man whose deportment 
nndcr snch trying circumstances so elicited my admiration. That you 
may never again lie so placed is my sincere wish notwithstanding your 
happy faculty of making a virtue of necessity. I suppose you are now 
enjoying yoiu'self on 

" — the wide and winding Rhine, 



Whose breast of waters broadly swells 
Between the banks which bear the vine." 

still as you will soon be in Paris, I shall send this letter to that city 
without delay. Remember me kindly to your wife and daughters. Hop- 
ing to hear from you often, that you will have a pleasant voyage to God's 
own country, and that we may some day meet again, I remain, 

Yours very truly, 

James H. Anderson, 
His Excellency, J. S. Haldeman, 

U. S. .MinishT-Rcsidcnt to Stockhobii. 



When I called on Col. Haldeman on the 4th of October 18G4, I found 
his handsome high-bred wife in a state of great excitement. She 
pranced the parlor floor of the large Hotel de I'Europe, like a beautiful 
leopatdess, her magnificent eyes fairly glittering with suppressed rage. 
"To think," she cried, "that the wife and children of Colonel Halde- 
man, the American eml)assador to Sweden and Norway, should suffer 
this humiliation !" I tried to calm the lady by saying that they would 
all probably be at liberty to proceed on their way the next day, that 
any one was liable to be sued, etc. "And for such a sum," she said, 
"for the pittance of five thousand dollars," and with flashing eyes she 
snapped her fingers contemptuously. I had heard that her father was 
one of the rich men of Pennsylvania, l)ut of her husband's financial 
standing I knew nothing. He told me he would pay the bill of exchange 
after reaching home if he was found to be liable. 

His brother. Hon. Richard J. Haldeman, M. C. was a son-in-law of 
the great millionaire statesman, Gen. Simon Cameron, U. S. Senator, ex- 
Secretary of War, ex-Minister to Russia, etc. 

The following note from Dr. C. H. Merck, Syndicus for Foreign 
Affairs, is an answer to one from James H. Anderson, U. S. Consul, 
on the subject of Minister Haldeman's notice and protest. 

DR. C. II. MKKCK TO JAMES li. ANDERSON. 

^nbem ber UntergeicEinete (Sl:)ntiicu§ ftdf) bec^^rt, (Sr. iQcd^lno^I- 
geboren, bem Sonful ber SSeretnigten ©taaten tion S^orb ^mertfa, 
§errn James H. Audenson ben (Smpfang ber t3eet)rten 3^Dte bom 6. 
Dftober 1864, begleitet bon einem ^^rotefte be§ gemefenen §errn 
SJJinifter-Dfiefibenten am 5li3niglicf) (Sd)lt)ebi[(f)en §Dfe, ^errn Halde- 

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man, an^etgtn, [ief)t er [id) beauftragt [d]cn jeljt tarauf ,^u erflciren, 
ha'^ ber ©enat bie 23ered)tigung 311 bem ^^rotefte in fciner JOeife anju* 
eriennen Lierinag, Da ba» ()ie|iL3e .^pan.elegc'iid}!, aU es an] einen t)on 
iperrn Haldemanals ^Ih-inatiuann ge^eidjnetcn unb yjcangels ^^i^'hing 
proteftierten 5i}>d)[el ben ^.Jtrreft gegen if)n erfannt (latte, bie (5igen[d)aft 
beSfelben ali biplDniati[d)en 5i]ertreter ber 5i.kreinigten Gtnaten gar 
nid)t fennen fonnte, inbem .S>rrHaldeinan[id) lueber burd] feinen ''^afi, 
nod) [onft n^ie ben §ainbnrgild]en 58e()i3rben gegeniiber in [einer ami:: 
lidien Qualitdt angemelbet t^atte. SSdre eg [elbft uni5lDeifeI(}a[t ba^ 
ein btp(omatt[d)er 5Certreter in einem britten Staate, bei tueld^em er 
nid)t accrebitirt i[t, (i^yterritorialitiit 3U genief^cn I)at, [o i]aik ieDenfaflg 
eine fold)e '•^(nmelbung erfolgen miiffen. ^af? ini Uebrigen bie TOafe- 
regein gegen iperrn Haldeman.fobalb er [einen %\a\] Dorgejeigt !)atte, 
au[ge(]D6en [inb, D()ne bie minbe[teng 3lr)ei[en)a[te 9kd)t'j[rage 3U eri3rs 
tern, braudit ber Unter3eid)nete l^ln. ,^Dd)n3D{)tgefcDren nicf)t be[Dnber§ 
I;ert)Dr3u()eben, ba eg (5ui. §cd)n:D{)Igeboren bereiig anbenueitig befannt 
genjorben i[t. 

2)er Untergeidinete benutjt mit S^ergniigen bie[e ;i^eranla[[nng jnr 
erneuerten S3er[id]erung [einer tonfcmmcnen §Dd)ad)tung. 

C. H. Mkkck. 

©r. §Dci^lr)D()IgebDren, .§errn James H. Anderson, 

(5Dn[u( ber $8ereinigten Gtaaten bon 5^orb ^}(nierifa, 
Hamburg, ben 12. Qftober 1864. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO J. II. A Nni'.K.S( )N'. 

Department of State, 
Washington, November 4, 1864. 

/. H. Anderson, Esq.. [J. S. Consnl. Jianibnrg, 

Sn< : — Your dispatch No. 325 concerning the arrest of the late U. 
S. Minister to Sweden,' has been received. Voin" proceedings are ap- 
proved. The subject will have consideration. Your Nos. ',V27 and 328 
have also been received, and read with satisfaction. 

1 am. Sir, yoiu" obedient servant, 
W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary. 



1 Other dispatches were received by me from tlic I)(parlm«nt of State 
on the subject of Mr. Haldeman's arrest, but owins lo our Civil War. and 
to Mr. Seward's satisfaction with the note dated October 12, 1864, of Syndicus 
Mercli. nothing further was done to my Itnowledge. — nothing certainly in 
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MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO MR. AND MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Tuesday, November 8, 1864. 

Dear Brother and Sister : — This is election day, and 
this will decide who is to be our next President. The stores are 
all closed, and all business suspended but voting, — the most im- 
portant of all. 

Of home gossip there is very little. The latest I believe 
is the marriage of Hon. John J. Williams, to a Miss Jones, a 
milliner here, who came from the east. They were married last 
Thursday, in the Episcopal Church, by Bishop Bedell.^ They 
went away on the first train, to Cincinnati I hear, and came 
back yesterday, when they were given a huge "belling," to cele- 
brate the event I suppose. The charivari occurred last night. 

Last Friday evening we gave a surprise party to our min- 
ister — Prof. Mather — and it proved a grand success. Until he 
came home about half past seven, he knew nothing of it, when 
he found his house full of company. Below, in the basement 
dining room, a large table was spread, and almost everything 
good to eat supplied. You are perhaps aware that he is an un- 
married man. We all spent the evening pleasantly until about 
1 1 o'clock when we came away, leaving him a few trifling 
presents, principally wearing apparel. We like him as a preacher 
and believe he will build up our congregation. - 

Cousin Alice and her husband-' are here at the house of her 
parents. Last Saturday evening, the anniversary of her wedding, 
she gave quite a party. She wishes you to send her your photo- 
graphs, and those of your children. Every one likes the pictures 
of your children. They are very good, so natural. 

Cousin Lizzie is now in her own home ; is fixed very well I 
fancy from her letters. She gave me her purchases, the prices, 
etc. Indeed it costs quite a little fortune to go to housekeeping 

1 Gregory T. Bedell, r>. D., born at Hudson, N. Y., August 27, 1817, bishop 
of the diocese of Ohio, and the author of many works, more or less able, 
that relate to religion, and the Protestant Episcopal Church: 

2 Rev. George Mather was born in England, graduated at the O. W. 
University in 1858, was four years professor of Mathematics and Natural 
Sciences, at the Female College at Delaware, and has held other promi- 
nent positions in connection with the M. E. Church. 

3 S. C. Osborn and Alice Johnson, his wife. 

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now, even in u plain comfortable way, to say nothing of a fine 
luxurious outfit. I believe she has married very well ; the family 
at least are well satisfied. Mr. \V. L. Tirrill,^ who was here 
a few weeks ago, spoke in the highest terms of Mr. Hogue. her 
husband. He is jtist Lizzie's age — 26. 

Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Tuesday Noveml)er 8, 1864. 

My dear Son: — Yours of the 15th ult. was received. You 
ask if I have received from Washington a late Annual Report 
of the Secretary of State, on the Commercial Relations of the 
United States with Foreign Nations, including Consular reports. 
I have not, nor any other Report from that city. 

( )ur National Bank declared a dividend on the 31st ult., the 
first in eight months. The liank officials expect hereafter to 
declare a dividend semi-annually. Your dividend will be placed 
to your credit. 

'I'his is Presidential election day, and I have just voted for 
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. It is a rainy morning, 
but we hope to poll our whole vote. In this part of the State the 

Germans and Irish, almost to a man, vote the — ticket, 

thinking they are voting in the cause of democracy as of old, 
whereas they are voting precisely as the Rebels want them to. 
You will learn by telegTaph the result of the election long be- 
fore I could send it to you. The Rebels, North and South, will 
practice all the frauds of which they are capable, still 1 fear no 
danger, and believe the Union cause will triumph. 1 mailed you 
yesterday a letter fi'om Europe by our friend Bishop lulward 
Thomson ; and an able speech by my old friend the 1 Ion. Thomas 
Ewing of Lancaster, Ohio, on "The State of the Country," de- 
livered at Circleville a few days ago. 



1 William L. Tirrill was born in Stewartstown, N. H.. in June 1824. and 
■died in Omaha. Neb., May 15, 1869. A good scholar, good speaker, good 
•lawyer, and an influential citizen. He was the principal of the Marion 
Academy for several ycare before he came to the bar. 

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As to the United States bonds, I have no donbt you might 
have made some money, Init yon must remember that you would 
have been compehed to pay for them in gold finally, possibly 
after leaving your official position ; and the bonds in the end 
may not be paid in gold. Our currency is at such a discount 
that it could hardly be desirable to buy gold with it to pay for 
bonds, however low the latter may fall in price. It might do and 
pay you well to buy bonds at the low figure at which they are 
now c[uoted in vour market, if you could borrow the money to do 
it, and had a reasonable assurance that the war was so near its 
close that these bonds would soon begin to rise, and that they 
would finally be paid in gold. * * * Benj. ( )lney sold his- 
land north of your Deal Farm, to Tom Dye for $20.00 per acre. 
In doing so I think he missed it. * * * 

May God bless you all with good health, and enable you 
to return in safety to your friends and country. This is my 
daily prayer. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marfon; Ohio, November 20. 1864. 

My Dear Brother: — I have just received a letter from 
in answer to the one I wrote him when I sent him a 



copy of last letter. Among other things he says : 'T 

thank you for the copy of letter which I read with 

equal pride and satisfaction. has what all men have 

who are worthy of the name, ambition — the disease of noble 
minds. He has beaten me in the battle of life, but I have re- 
commenced the fight, and trust that Fortuna, fickle goddess, will 
yet smile graciously upon me. I can not but feel a pride in the 
elevated and honorable sphere m which he is moving — hon- 
orable alike to liimself and his family — and without honor, or 
fortune, what are we? really nothing." 

James I wish you would write , a good long en- 
couraging letter. We are probably his onlv correspondents, and 
you know he gets low spirited so easily ; and perhaps it would 
do him good to know that you sometimes think of him. He 

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is now doing very well. * * * I wish you were here next 
Thursday — Thanksgiving Day — to (hue with us. Mow happ) 
it would make us all! I trust the gcxxi Lord will souii pernnt 
us to meet together again. 



Your affectionate sister, 



Annie. 



P. S. — I am glad that you have found in Mr. William 
Ward,i the son of the Lhdtish diplomatic rc])resentativc. a con- 
genial associate, and that he is an intelligent high-minded man, 
and that his ])arents are such agreeable peo])le. 



THOMAS J. ANDI-'.RSON TO JAMES II. AXDI'.RSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Noveniber 22, 1864. 

My de.vr Sox: — Yours of the 2(1 inst. received. We were 
glad to hear from \()U. '■' '■' '•'■ T have houglit no tax-titles 

recently, nor do 1 intend to \)\\\ am- more. R W 

has not redeemed his lots, nor 15 K . We hold bv 



' Sir William Ward, born June 2, 1S41. oreated a linight in 1900, has 
been Briti.sh consul general at Hamburg since 1897. He is tlie youngest 
son of the late John Ward, C. B., long the British minister-resident at 
Hamburg. Sir William was educated in Germany, and England; was his 
father's private secretary 1860-1866; was vice consul at Memel, Prussia, 
1866-70, where he married Miss Jennie Maria, daughter of the late Elenry 
Fowler; was consul at Bremen, Germany, 1871-80; at Portland, Me., 1881-83; 
at Bordeaux. Fi-ance, 188:5-96; and is still consid geiioi-al at Hamburg. 
His standing in his own country, and in the consular service has long been 
high. I made liis acquaintance in the cit.v of Hamburg in 1861, and from 
that time until I left Hamburg in 1866, we were intimate friends. He was 
a man in t-veiy sense of the word, a manly man, lionorable and true. Of 
all my European acciuaintances, \\'illiam Ward was the one held by mo in 
the highest esteem. He is a linguist who speaks and writes several languages 
with ease and accuracy; and there is nnt pri)l).iV)l,\- in the service of any 
country a consular officer who is better informed as to tin; requirements and 
practical duties of the consular service, or wliose official reports have a 
wider circulation. His brother. Adolphus ^^'. Ward, T.iU. D.. T„L. D., Mas- 
ter of Peterhouse, Coll. Cambridge since IflOO, was born in Hamstead, 
December 2, 18:!7; educated at Peterhouse Cambridge; fellow of Peter- 
house, 1861. Wnen I knew him he was rather tall, of imposing presence, 
and altogether companionable. He is the author of several standard works. 
Another brother, John Ward, whoso ac(|uaintance I made in Hamburg, 
held a high .iudicial position in the East India civil service, ana came all 
the way from Calcutta to this country, to marry the benutiful dauglit(>r of 
the Baron von Gerolt, long the Prussian minister at W;\shington, and dean 
of the diplomatic corps. 

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a tax-title the lot that old William Brown, civil engineer, used 
to own and occupy. I would surrender our tax-titles to owners 
in fee on repayment to us of purchase money and simple interest. 
Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Johnson were elected by the greatest 
•vote any President and Vice President ever received. Lincoln 
has 213 electoral votes; McClellan 21, namely: Kentucky 11, 
New Jersey 7, Delaware 3. We elected three-fourths of the 
members of Congress. In Ohio we elected 17, opposition 2; 
whereas in the present Congress we only have five members from 
Ohio. The LTnion is safe ; our bonds are going up, and gold 
is coming down. Greenbacks will be as good as gold finally. 

You will not probably be at the next inauguration of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, but you would like to witness it I know.^ Love 
to Princess and the children. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — Marion market prices: Fresh pork $16.00 per cwt., 
butter 40 cents per lb., eggs 25 cents per doz., flour $10.50 per 
bljl., wood $6.00 per cord, corn meal $1.25 per bush., corn 75 
cents per bushel, hay $15 to $20 per ton. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JA^'ES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, November 22, 1864. 

My Dear Princie : — I am glad you feel better. I have 
high hopes of seeing you return in the spring improved in 
health. How heartily we will welcome you all home. 

People say to me, "Now that Mr. Lincoln is re-elected won't 
James continue in office?" I answer, "He will certainly return in 
the spring, though I know he could hold the position. If he 
should conclude to remain in our foreign service he will want 
a change, although he is well pleased with the people and the 
]:)lace." I know that James possesses a laudable ambition, still 
T think he would like to be at home. * * * 

II was in Washing-ton and saw President Lincoln take the oath of office, 
and deliver his inaugural address, both on March 4, 1861, and on March 4, 
1865. I also attended the Inaugural Ball on the 4th of March, 1865. 

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While I think of it I will say that the steward of the church 
asked Mr. A. whether yon were willing- to ])a\- qnarterage, as 
your name is on the class-hook. He told the steward that he 
would pay your quarterage if you instructed him to do so, and 
asked me to write you on the subject. As the steward is mak- 
ing up the class quota, you can say in your next whether you 
wish to pay, and if so how much. The church expenses this 

year will be something over $- . If I were you I would 

not give very much as you are not here, and abroad you are- 
subject to church and many other expenses. 1 am glad you still 
find the people of Hamburg, especially those with whom you 
associate, so agreeable ; and that James continues to appreciate 
and admire his English friends Mr. and Mrs. Ward,^ and others. 
Tell Mary, and little James, we have plenty of apples in the 
cellar from our own orchard, and wish they were here to help 
eat them. May God have you in His holy keeping. 

Your afifectionate . mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, December 5, 1864. 
My Dear Son : — We received letters from yourself and' 
Princess of the 29th of October. Our mails are not transmitted 
with the regularity they once were. ^ 

^john Ward. C. B., diplomatist, was born Augu-st 28, 1805, at East 
Co-wes, Isle of Wight, where his father John Ward, was Collector of Cus- 
toms. ' His mother was a sister of Thomas Arnold of Rugby. Mr. Ward 
was inspector of prisons in 1S37. and private secretary of the Earl of 
Durham in 1838. He published many able articles in the Edinburgh Re- 
view, and in British and foreign reviews. He was sent to Berlin in 1844 
as British Commissioner, to effect a settlement of the Portendic claims 
on France. In 1845 he was appointed British consul general at Leipsic, and 
in 1850 he was instructed to act as secretary of the British legation at 
Dresden. In 1860, after receiving the order of C. B., he was appointed 
British consul general and charg§ d'affaires to Hamburg, and other 
Hanseatic cities. In 1865 he and Lord Napier negotiated a commercial- 
treaty with the Zollverein, and in 1866 he was raised to the rank of minister- 
resident. In 1870 he was placed on the retired list, and spent his re- 
maining years at Dover, where he died September 1, 1890. his excellent 
and gifted wife, Caroline Bullock, surviving him. See "Reminiscences of a 
Diplomatist, being recollections of Germany founded on diaries kept during 
the years 1840-70, by John Ward, C. B., 1872." From 1861 to 1866 I 
met Mr. and Mrs. Ward quite often, and always cherished a feeling of 
regard for both, and for all the members of this superior family. 

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Well James if you did not send up one long, loud cheer 
when you heard the result of the election, it was because you had 
no one to rejoice with you. To have been within hearing of our 
braves in the field when they got the news would have done 
your soul good. Cheer followed cheer along the lines for miles 
and miles, and the echoing hills returned the triumphant shout. 
It was cheering enough to our troops, but ominous of stern war 
to the Rebs. 

We are having more fighting in Tennessee. As Sherman 
passed southward, Hood came northward, and the l)attle of 
Franklin,^ eighteen miles below Nashville was fought. Our 
army defeated Hood, and took over one thousand prisoners. You 
will wonder why Thomas suflrered Hood to come so near Nash- 
ville. It was a necessity. Sherman had taken away so large an 
army as to leave Thomas much reduced. So he sent north 
for reinforcements, and fell slowly back to receive them. The 
Rebels thought he was retreating and were in great glee, but he 
knew what he was about. Our army was probably reinforced, 
l)ut whether reinforced or not, it made a stand, and was Aictor- 
ious. After which our forces fell back to within three miles of 
Nashville, so as to i)rotect our vast stores at that point. An- 
other collision is expected. All the employes of the quarter- 
master's department at Nashville, together with all other reliable 
persons have been ordered to mount and guard the trenches. So 

1 The battle of Franklin was fought November 30, 1864. Gen. Hood, 
commanding 40,000 Confederates, assaulted the TTnlon army of 17,000 men. 
consisting of the 4th army corps imder Gen, Stanley, and the 23rd army 
corps under Gen, Schofleld, Four different assaults were made by the Con- 
federates, the battle lasting till a late hour, but each time they were 
repulsed with great loss. At midnight, Schofleld, who was in command, 
withdrew his troops and trains to Nashville, meeting little opposition. 
Rebel loss nearly 6,000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners; l^nion loss 189 
killed. 1,033 wounded, 1,104 missing. The battle of Franklin, (Thomas was 
not present), fought about 18 miles south of Nashville, can scarcely be called 
a Confederate victory. Gen. Thomas, in recommending the promotion of 
Gen. Stanley (an Ohio soldier,) says: "His gallantry [at the battle of 
Franklin,] was so marked as to merit the admiration of all who saw him. 
It was here that his personal bravery was more decidedly brought out 
perhaps, than on any other field;" and the "defeat" "of the enemy" was 
"due more to his heroism and gallantry than to that of any other officer 
on the field," The great battle of Nashville, fought soon after, De- 
cemlicr 15th. 16th, 1864, Thomas, "the Rock of Chickamauga" in com- 
mand of the Union troops, extinguished Gen, Hood's army, and the hopes 
of the (Confederate Government in the west. It was probably the most im- 
portant Federal victory of the war. The Union army lost 3,057, as follows: 
387 killed, 2558 wounded, and 112 missing. Rebel loss not reported, 

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I presume Lyman is now thus employed. He has alwavs heen 
willing- "to pitch in." Persons not deemed reliahle have been 
ordered "to leave the city and go north." So we see it is no 
light thing to be living in the neighborhood of war. This is the 
substance of Saturday's installment of war news. 

I am sorry Princie, that your sister Mrs. R. X. Tavlor. thinks 
of going- to Arkansas for her health, for a journey of the kind 
is perilous at this time as guerrillas attack the boats so often. 
If she should get through she might be benetited : but she is 
very nervous, and the shocks from frights and terrors by the 
way would likely make her weaker still. Her disease is nervous 
altogether, not pulmonary, and anything very frightful might 
prove fatal. Mr. R. X. Taylor has a brother^ on one of the gov- 
ernment plantations, as you already know, who is a cotton planter. 

is 1 think mistaken in his opinion of Rev. George 

]\Iather. He is a very earnest preacher. 1 sometimes think, how- 
ever that some of his expressions in the pul])it are almost too 
strong, especially when speaking about Copperheads. He pounces 
down on them with the most withering denunciations. I don't 
care how severe he is in talking to or about them, but I think 
that a more refined manner in the ptilpit, and langtiage less coarse 
would be more appropriate and etTective. Being an Englishman, 
he uses great plainness, sometimes amounting to harshness of 
speech. He preaches good sermons, however, and his talents are 
considerablv above mediocrity. 

Local news — there is none. ]\Iy love to Princie, Mary, 
JauK's and Charles. That God may have you in His holy keep- 
ing, and enfold vou in His arms of love and mercy, is the praver 

Your affectionate mother. 

' Captain Edward L. Taylor, the cotton planter, born in Franklin county, 
Ohio. March 20. 1839. was a gallant soldier in the Civil War. .At the battle 
of Richmond. Ky.. August 30. 1862. where he fought with great heroism, 
he was wounded and made a prisoner. After his release he continued in 
our service till July 5. 1863. when he resigned his commission. He is a bon- 
vivant, a good story-teller, a good writer, an eloquent speaker, and the 
lather of three talented sons and one accomplished daughter. He is a law- 
partner in Columbus. Ohio, of his distinguished brother. Gen. Henry C. 
Tavloi-. • 



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MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, December 6, 1864. 

Dear Brother : — I received your letter of the 14th uit. tell- 
ing me of the watch^ you kindly sent me. For so handsome and 
valuable a present, how can I express my thanks ! I appreciate 
the gift I "assure you. I shall keep it all my life, with some 
other things you have given me. 1 shall write at once to Mrs. 
Col. J. H. Godman, now in Columbus, to send me the watch by 
express as soon as she receives it. I am impatient to see it. 
* * * Write me again soon. 

Your sister, 

Annie. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Tuesday, December 6, 1864. 

•Dear Son : — How much longer do you v/ant the Marion 
Independent sent to you ? I told Mr: George Crawford, the edi- 
tor, I would let him know when to stop sending it. I suppose 
about the first of March, as after that )Ou would not receiv-^ 
it ; or will yovu" return be on a leave of absence ? I believe I 
could attend to your business another term provided you de- 
cide to remain in some foreign relation. If you can content 
yourself abroad for another term, you should be promoted to 
a higher and more lucrative position. You will come home at 
all events. I am very anxious to see you and your family : so 
are we all. * * * Act according to your better judgment, re- 
lying on God to direct you. 

There is very little here now for a lawyer to do. Our young 
lawyers are doing comparatively nothing, except Henry C. God- 

^ In the fall of 1864, a Mr. Emory, foTmerly proprietor of the American 
House, Columbus, Ohio, came to Hamburg to negotiate the sale of steam 
fire engines. He had one with him, a hand.some specimen, and to show 
its capacity gave a public exhibition. The people stood afar off fearing 
it might burst. He had given eiiihibitions in Egypt, in Prance, and was 
en route to Russia. I sent to Ohio by Mr. Emory the watch, and various 
other presents and requested him to hand them to Mrs. Godman — a 
particular friend of our family — whose husband Gen. Godman, was then 
Auditor of State. 

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man, who succeeded to liis father"s i)r;uiico. jdlni j. WilHams, IT. 
T. Van Fleet, A. Osborn, S. 11. Barlranu and J. C. Johnston are 
doino- very little. 

1 am holding- the Rollino- Plain ((qo acre) farm at $ 

per year, and expect to gel it. It needs nndcrhrnshing badly. 
It underbrushed 1 could get a nuich higher rental. 1 expect to 

rent the Prairie Farm (404 acres) iov $ per annum. I. J. 

Anderson, of Carey, ( )hio, had it last year. David 1 larpster 
wants to rent the Rolling Plain, lint 1 fear he will not give me 
my price in its present condition. He needs it, not having- pas- 
ture enough on his own farm for his large Hock of sheep and 
other stock. Last year he rented the Bryant farm of 480 acres 
that lies between the Rolling- Plain and your River Farm. '•' * * 

Give me the date of the birth of your son Charles Finley 
Anderson, that 1 may enter it in my bilile — the day, month, and 
year. My love to all. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOM.VS J- ANDERSON TO MRS. J.\MES H. .\NDERS0N. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, December 19, 1864. 

Dear Princie : — The health of the place has been very good 
for months, but tlie fall was certainly the most unpleasant that 
I can call to mind. We did not have one clear day in Novem- 
ber, nor has it been comfortable to sit without fire since the 
2 1 St of September. 

I believe I told you that Percy Copeland' and family had 
moved to Bellefontaine. Last week Alice his eldest daughter, 
took the scarlet fever and died in three days. She was buried 
here, but fearing the contagion the coffin was not opened. A 
blight seems to have fallen upon that house. Alice, who was 
in her seventeenth year, experienced religion just tliree weeks 
before her death. In this there was consolation untold, for it 
destroved the whole sting of death. But O what selfish beings 



1 E. Percy Copeland, some years later moved to Rochester, Ind., and 
became president of the First National Bank. 

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we are ! When we know that our friends and loved ones have 
made a happy exit, we are still unwilling to give them up. 

Mrs. James H. Godnian, whose health is not good, is ex- 
pected here from Columbus to spend the holidays ; also her 
son William,^ and his wife who is a sister of the wife of Prof. 
P. S. Donelson, D. D., of Delaware. She was a widow with 
one child when cHscovered by William. 

Mrs. Fry2 gave a party, called a church reunion, last week. 
Wc were all invited, but the sleety pavements afforded me a 
sufficient excuse for not attending. It was no doubt a pleasant 
party, but I have no taste now for large receptions of any sort. 
Princie I hope you will write to Mrs. Fry. 

Tuesday. I hope the weather will soon be more pleasant, 
for I am so sad when it is gloomy. It seems impossible to throw 
it off, though I try to be cheerful. But why detail this stuff to 
you? You can't understand it. In the springtime of life we 
are full of hope, feel that we are equal to the great task before 
us, but not so in life's decline. I am weak physically and 
mentally: as a consequence my spirits and energies fail me. 
Hence I am given to despondency at times, though my natural 
disposition is buoyant and hopeful. I earnestly pray that you 
may not be a sufferer this winter. My love to James and the 
children. May God have you in His holy keeping. 

Your affectionate mother. 

P. S. — We just received a letter from Lyman. He had 
been ordered to the field to assist in driving Hood away from 
Nashville.^ 

1 Rev. V^illiam D. Godman, A. M., D. D., graduated from the O. W. 
University, August 5, 1846, and since then has been a faithful soldier of 
the cross and gospel herald. 

2 Wife of Rev. H. B. Frv. 

3 The battle of Nashville was fought on the 15th and IGth of De- 
cember. 1864, and during these two days of furious fighting. Gen. Thomas 
with 56,000 Union troops, nearly annihilated the Confederate army, 40,000 
strong, under Gen. Hood. The Confederates abandoned their artillery, and 
fled southward in wild disorder and utter rout. The Union army cap- 
tured 4,46^ prisoners, including 287 general and field officers, 53 guns, and 
many thousands of small arms. The Confederates were so frightened and 
demoralized that their retreat did not cease till they were in Tupelo. Miss., 
where the remnants of the army melted away, and Hood at hia own re- 
quest, was relieved of command. It was a famous victory. 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, Januar}- i6, 1865. 

My dear Son : — Your letters due on Saturday last have 
not yet been received; hope they will arrive before I mail this. 
This will be a poorer letter than usual. You will say I don't 
■see why ! Indeed to tell the truth I am so excited thinking of 
your home-coming, and how happy it will make us all, that I 
am almost beside myself and unfit to write, or do anything else. 
You will soon be able to say when you will set sail for Amer- 
ica. If you should decide to remain in Europe another term 
of four years, you must get a leave of absence that will enable 
you to make us a good long visit. A faithful officer who has 
never left his post is entitled to such a leave. Nearly all our 
Ministers and Consuls in Europe have been at home once or 
twice since you went away. The i)apers announce arrivals and 
departures. I notice that young !\lr. Xast,^ our Consul at 
Stuttgart, is now at home. 

Although it is Monday, the house is full of callers, mak- 
ing it difficult to write. I was quite sick vSaturday night and 
Sunday, and friends are calling to learn how I am. They find 
me alniL^st well, only a little weak. When I last wrote you I 
could scarcely hold my pen. I had fallen on the ice a few 
days previous, and fractured a rib from which I suffered very 
much for about three weeks. It has now almost ceased to pain 
me, and I ap]:)rehend no further trouble. 

To-night an "Old Folks' Concert" will be given in town, the 
proceeds of which will go to the Aid Society. I hope there 
will be a large turnout. We are having very pleasant winter 
weather. The sleighing is good. It is not very cold, nor have 
we had anv intense weather. T have not heard from Mrs. R. N. 
Tavlor since she went south. 

The body of Capt. Thomas J- Anderson, Jr..- was brought 
to our house the Wednesday after I last Avrote vou, and from 



1 William F. Nast, of Cincinnati, son of Rev. William Nast. D. D., of 
the M. K. Chtirch. 

2 Captain Thomas .1. Anderson, Jr., son of John, and a nephew of Judge 
Thomas J. Anderson, was born on his father's farm less than two miles 
east of Marion, September 20, 1835, and died on the same place January 2, 
1865. He was captain of Co. E, 12th Reg. Ind. Vol. Inf., and served for 

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thence escorted to the cemetery by the soldiers in town, of whom, 
there were a great many, and buried with martial honors. The 
soldiers were all in uniform, and the procession was Cjuite im- 
posing'. The scene and service were solemn and impressive. 
Three volleys of musketry were fired over the grave, and this 
seemed dreadful, but such is now the custom. "Tommy" was a 
great sulferer, but died in prospect of eternal life. He seemed 
to be well aware for some time that he must die, and said, almost 
with his dying breath, that he had given his life for his country, 
but expected to live eternally in heaven. His father felt the 
stroke acutely. 

Have your children, who are delicately constituted, take good 
care of themselves, for they can't stand much exposure. May 
the arms of the Almighty encircle you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

IMarion, Ohio. January 17, 1865. 

My DEAR Son : — Since I last w-rote I have made the fol- 
lowing collections. * * * William Miller, David Miller's first 
cousin, came here today from his farm in Wyandot county to see 
me on business. He said sleighing was never better. 

There has not been much war news since Gen. Sherman 
took Savannah,^ and Gen. Thomas whipped Hood at Nashville. 
The Union men of Tennessee, lately held a convention at Nash- 
ville, to reorganize the state and bring her back into the Union, 

over three years in the war, and till his health gave way. He was one- 
of the 110 men selected by Gen. Sherman to enter and do special duty in 
Mississippi. He was a brave soldier, and on all occasions truthful and up- 
right. He was faithful among the faithless. As a boy and as a man he 
was true and reliable; hence he enjoyed the confidence and respect of all 
who knew him. Sorrow and tears marked his untimely fate. 

1 The siege of Savannah. The city was occupied after ten days' siege 
and fighting, December 10 to 21, 1864, by Sherman, as the finale of his won- 
derful march to the sea. He had 60,000 troops. Hardee held Savannah 
with 15,000 Confederates, and on the night of the 20th evacuated the city 
by means of a pontoon bridge. Sherman found 250 heavy guns, and 31,000' 
bales of cotton, when he entered Savannah. The news of Sherman's ex- 
ploits, were received by the people of the loyal states with unbounded 
delight; and he leaped into fame, and became the idol and hero of the- 
hour. 

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and they nominated a good man for governor, namely, Parson 
Brownlow. The Rebels are falling-oul among themselves, and 
the Southern masses are sick of the Confederacy, and want to 
come back into the Union. The signs of the times favor our 
arms, and the Union cause. 

I want you to let us know when you will leave llamburg 
for home, and on what steamer. After your arrival here, if 
you should not want to return, it will be time enough to resign. 
A longer residence at Hamburg, would enable you to give your 
children a good education, particularly in music, and the modern 
languages. Tell ]\Iary and James T. not to forget grandfather. 
I pray to God daily for you all, and that your lives may be 
spared to return to }our coimtry and friends. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — ^Market prices: Flour $ii.oo per Ijbl., corn 85 cents 
per bushel, pork $14 per cwt., beef 10 cents per lb. by the 
•quarter, butter 40 cents per lb., eggs 30 cents per dozen, hay 
$20 per ton, wood $8 per cord. 



CORA SPAULDING TO MARY P. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio. January 17, 1865. 

My dear Cousin Mary: — I wish that you and your papa, 
and all your family were here. I know your papa would take 
us a sleighing. I have not yet had one sleigh-ride this winter. 
I went to a concert last night ; it was very good : I wish you 
had been there. The concert people came from Mt. Gilead. Mary 
I had a nice little black kitten, and it died about a week ago, 
and we all felt very sorry for it was so playful. T am going 
to school now ; I was at school this morning, dive my love 
to your j)apa and mamma, and kiss little James and Charlie for 
me. ^'()ur cousin, 

Cora Spaitlding. 

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MI^.S. TJIOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAM1-:S II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, January 30, 1865. 

My dear Son: — It is a long- time since we lieard from. 
>ou. 1 suppose you have already seeured a leave of absence, 
and know just when you will embark for home. We do not 
want any of our letters to arrive at Hamburg after you leave. 
Your last was of the loth ult. so you may imagine how anxious 
we arc. What wouldn't I give to see you all to-night or even 
to know that you are well. I have put the shade on the lamp 
and will now try to finish this letter. We have had company all 
day. 

Maggie I'ollock is now here, and will stay a day or two. 
I am now of the opinion that her lungs are not affected. She 
is nervous and her throat gives her some concern, but she may 
live many years. Mrs. Matthews, wife of Rev. A. D. Matthews,^ 
died last Friday, leaving five small children. How sad. To- 
day many people turned out to cho]) and haul wood for the famil- 
ies of our soldiers, b^or more than three weeks we have had the 
best kind of sleighing:- — very cold a ])art of the time. 

Our next door neighbor Mrs. Jane S. Williams just came 
in, and invited us to join a sleighing party to the Boynton place 
on the pike. You will l)e surprised to hear that T accepted. I 
have only been out of town twice since l^rincie was here in 
iSO^. Tomorrow afternoon we start to Mr. Boynton's stock 
farm. He lives two miles north of Slick's Inn, on the turn- 
pike — -seven miles from town. Von will wonder why we are 
going there. Well Mrs. Sally Randall.- who you know was 



1 Rev. A. D. Matthews, born in Marion county. April 4. 1S2-4, was mar- 
ried April 27, 1847, to Miss Jane E. Roberts, (born in October, 1824. in Stark 
county, Ohio), who died in Marion, January 28, 1865. Mr. Mattliews was 
educated in the Marion Academy and in the O. W. University, was a 
teacher, preacher, politician, and merchant, many years, was treasurer of 
Marion county four terms and has been a local preacher in the M. E. 
church for a long period, and traveled the Norton-LaRue Circuit, as an 
"itinerant" for a few years. He has .ioined more people in marriage than 
any man of his time. He is not a genius, but a man of good sense, 
pleasant popular manners, a good story teller, cracks a clean cut joke, 
and is respected by saint and sinner. 

-"Miss Sarah Williams married I^evi H. Randall in 1820. He -was a 
good citizen. Her second husband, Mr. Amos Boynton. a farmer in Clar- 
idon township, Marion county, stood high in the community. (The Wil- 
liams family — mo.st respectable people — came to Marion in 1825.) A 

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very poor, and had a hard liiiR' \n snppcirl her l'aniil\-, was lately 
married to Mr. lloyntnii, a tiiK" man, in t^ood circnmstanccs. She 
had ([uifc a trial in her mind al)i)nl ^ctlin^- married ai;ain, hnt 
I thoug-ht it the hest thm^- slu' c(»uld do. .\nd we are now in- 
vited to visit l\lr. ;md Mrs. I'.oynton al their pleasant and at- 
traetive eonntry home on the pike. Mrs. Williams says we will 
enjoy it, of wdiicli I have no donht. 

We had a telegram from Lonisville the other dav from 
Lyman. He was on his way to join Sherman. Fie is in the 
Commissary Department in the 23(1 army eor])s. T must close 
this scrawl ; there is so much noise. Annie, Maggie, and Mary 
Williams are all talking as fast as they can ahont crocheting, 
and other trifles, so 1 cannot think of anything to say. Tell Mary, 
James, and Carl, that grandma wants to see them "so bad." She 
can hardly wait till they come liome. Adien, mv dear children. 
God bless you. 

Your affectionate mother. 



THE DEPARTMENT Ol' .SI. MIC TO J.\.\n".S il. A\r)F.RSOX. 

1 )l'.l'AkrMKNT OF Stati-:. 
No. 170. Wash iN'CTON. Jaii"y iV, IHti."). 

/. //. Anderson, Esq., 

U. S. Consul, Ilanil'itriji. 
.Sir: — I liavc to acl<iio\vli.'(lt;c' tin- rrci.'i|it of your dcspalcli No. .'^SS, 
and ill reply tlicrcto inform yon that in consideration of your faitliful 
and nnreniilting attention tt) the duties of your rcspon.sihle position 
during tlie past four years, the I )epartnu'nt grants you a leave of absence 
from yoin- post, of three months, dating from your dejjarture therefrom. 
^'our nomination of Mr. J. R. McDonald as L'. S. Vice Consul during 
your temporary absence is ap])roved, subject to law and tiie Consular 
Regulations. His ccrtilicalc of appointment is liercwitli enclosed, together 
with a form of the official oath, which will lie executed and returned to 
this r)e])artment. 1 am, Sir, Your nlredient servant. 

F. \V. Seward, 
Assislaut Secretary. 

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randall (not having the family bible at hand 
to consult), was unable to tell me when her parents were born, or when 
they died. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Randall, lA-vi ll;ilh:ivva.v, wlio was 
badly wounded during the Civil War, was placed in a liousc vvitli other 
wounded soldiers, which was set on Are liy tlie Reliels. and liiinit t;i ashes 
amid the screams of the helpless victims. 

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THOMAS j. ANDERSON TO JAMKS il. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, January 31, 1865. 

Dear Son : — Since I last wrote I have made collections as 

follows: * * * in the case brought against Wesley , 

1 employed the J)artrams, who charged me 5 per cent. * * * 

Our sleighing was never better ; and your mother, Mrs. 
Jane S. Williams, Mrs. S. Tcrpany, and I will drive over to 
Mr. Amos Boynton's on the pike this forenoon. Mr. B. has 
just been united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah Randall, sister of 
B. H. Williams, and widow of the late Levi H. Randall. We 
have had a thick coat of snow, and the best of sleighing for over 
three weeks. 

Your last letter was dated December loth, but Judge Bowen 
received one of later date, as he informed me .a few days ago. 
The price of gold from a standard of jjaper currencv. here 
fluctuates from $2.00 to $2.18, the bulls trying to keep it up, and 
the bears to bring it down. 

( )ur naval forces and armies are very successful. We have 
taken Ft. Fisher, ^ and the other forts that command the mouth 
of Cape Fear River, and blockaded the harl)or of Wilmington, 
N. C, so that no blockade runners can now enter. As Sherman 
is supposed to be marching on Charleston from Savannah, we 
expect to hear very soon that he has captured the place, for no 
army in the wSouth can cope with his. Moreover our fleet in 
the harbr)r is read\- to co-operate with Sherman's forces in re- 
ducing the city, and it must fall. * '■' " Cod bless you all. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

1 We twice attempted the reduction of Fort Fisher during the Re- 
bellion. Our first attcmitt was made December 23-25, 1864, by Porter's 
fleet with 500 guns, and a land force of 6,500 men under Butler and 
Weitzel. Butler tried to blow up the fort witli a powder boat. As this 
attempt failed, a combined attack was made by land and sea January 
13-15, 1865. Gen. Grant having- dispatched 1.500 more men under Terry. 
On the 13th a galling fire by the fleet was maintained, but the garrison 
of 2,300 Confederates under Whiting bravely held the fort. On the 15th the 
land force having made an assault, a fierce and bloody hand-to-hand combat 
of five hours' duration ensued, when the fort surrendered. The entire gar- 
rison was captured. The 16th the powder magazine blew up, and 200 were 
killed. 

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Ol Juclg-e Thomas J. Anderson and Wife 

THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES 11. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, February 28, 1865. 

AIy dear Daughter : — I was truly glad to hear of the 
safe arrival of James at New York on the 19th inst. He notified 
me as soon as he left tlie Saxonia, and said that he would go 
to Washington before coming home. He said he would write me 
again from'New York, but I have received no other letter. May 
hear from him this afternoon. He writes to you I suppose 
regularly. 

1 was much disappointed when I learned that none of the 
family came over with him, for I wanted and now want to 

see you and the children. I love the dear little souls. 

is a very sweet child ; and dear little • . I can see him 

now in the likeness before me which you sent us. He and 

, and the doll, in one picture. He is leaning on his 

little hand, looking natural and well. As for little Charles F., 
though I never saw him, I imagine that he is much like the other 
dear little ones. You and the dear little children may be happy, 
though alone and far from home, — the boisterous ocean rolling 
between you and your coinitry, — if vou continue cheerful, 
and put your trust in our great and good r>enefactor. Your 
relatives are all well except your nephew little Frank. ( )f his 
ailments ycu have no doubt been advised. 

( )ur army and navv are now doing wonders in putting down 
the wicked rebellion in our countrv. We now have possession 
of all the seaports except Mol:)ile, and that will soon be ours. 
Om- troops occupy the great Babylon, Charleston, and Fort Sum- 
ter, and the other forts, and the American flag waves in triumph 
over them all. To-day's paper intimates that the Rebels are 
about to evacuate Richmond and Petersburg and that Lee himself 
has gone away and left Johnston in command, the belief being 
that he has gone to check Sherman. If not checked soon, Sher- 
man will disperse all the rebel forces, for he seems to be going 
wherever and doing whatever he pleases. Ihit (ien. Grant is 
watching Lee closely. Look out for stirring times earl\ this 
spring. The United States will come out all right. Do not 
doubt it. But for the help given the Rebels abroad, thev would 
have gone under long ago. 

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Now dear Princess, do not fail to write every two weeks, as 
the steamers have resumed their regular trips. I do not expect 
James till after the fourth of March, as that will be a high-day 
in Washington. All join me in love to you and the dear children. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON.. 

Marion, Oitio, February 28, 1865. 

Dear Frincte : — Yours of the 23d and 28th ult. were duly 
received, and I was very glad to get them. As we expected you 
and the children to accompany James home, we were disap- 
pointed. He wrote that you had decided not to come on account 
of the illness of the children. Mr. Anderson and Annie deeply 
regret it, but I bear it more philosophically, believing the hand 
of God was in it. In this way I overcome many of my trials and 
disappointments. Trials, for which we are in no way respon- 
sible, are intended 1 believe for our temporal or spiritual good. 
When the children are out of danger, and I hope they soon will 
be, you will have that disease to dread no more, which is the 
silver lining to the cloud that now lowers upon your house. 
Indeed all clouds have silver linings which our obscured vision 
sometimes fails to discern. 

I presume you were duly apprised of the day that James ar- 
rived in New York, on the Saxonia. We v/ent to the dc[>ot every 
day after the steamship's arrival on the 19th inst. till Friday, 
when we got a letter stating that he was very weak from pro- 
tracted seasickness, would rest a day or two, and then leave for 
^^'ashington. We hope he will hurry home. I expect him soon, 
for I know he will come just as soon as he can. Now Princie, 
don't allow yourself to become low spirited, for it may do you 
much harm. 

T received a letter from Mrs. R. N. Taylor a few days ago. 
You know perhaps that she is at the Water Cure for the benefit of 
little Frank's health. The physician at the Cure • — no doubt a 
humbug — says they must remain a year. He has a rich patient, 
and expects a big ])ile for his services : and monev is nothing- 

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if he could effect a cure, but iu my opinion neither he nor any 
other doctor can save the child.^ 

Princie, in case you decide to remain in Europe four years 
longer, you will come home in the summer, will you not? It 
is very healthy here, no sickness scarcely. Mr. Christ. Brady is 
sick, but it is old age ; he is eighty-four. If there is anything 
in America that you would like to have me send you by James, 
let me know. Adieu. 

Your affectionate mother. - 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio. Tuesday, Alarch 28, 1865. 

Dear Daughter : — As it is my time to write to you — a 
thing I do not neglect — and as you are now alone with the 
dear children, you will be anxious to hear from home. James 
arrived here on the 15th inst., and staid till yesterday, when 
he started to Upper Sandusky. I think he will return here this 
week. He is very well. 

We are now having very fine weather, and the young blue 
grass is springing up, the flowering buds are fast putting forth, 
and the birds of early spring are all over our grounds. I have 
not yet made any garden, but ought to have done so. Will in 
a few days begin work on the garden. 

As the rebellion is fast winding to a close — for our armies 
are very successful — we shall soon resume our steady-going, 
straight-forward habits. Gold is fast coming down, as we ex- 
press it. American stocks are good property, and will soon be as 
good as gold. In short, Ave have no better security for money 
now than U. S. bonds. Confederate stocks will be worth nothing. 
In fact, they never have had any intrinsic value, although Euro- 
peans have bought them, and I do not pity them. 

James brought me a very nice heavy cloth over-coat, and a 
fine black broad-cloth dress suit, with which T am well pleased. 

1 The child only lived a few months after this date. 

"All the other letters written by my mother during 1S65-66, and nearly 
all written by my father except business letters, have been lost or destroyed. 

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Princess, I should very much hke to see you, Mary, and 
James T. I can see tlie sweet children by looking at the pictures 

you sent us. I know is a good little girl, and 

is one of the best and most sensible little boys I ever knew. 
Little Charley I never' saw, but kiss him for me, and tell him 
grandfather loves him and wants to see him very much. I would 

not hurry "s education too much ; as her mind is very 

active, her health might be injured. Let the children play a 
great deal in the open air. Be careful not to strain the minds 
of children by crowding their studies. I will admit that it is 
a very nice point to determine just how to train and educate 
children ; but one thing I think essential in parents, to be very 
kind yet firm. Never exact more of a child than it can per- 
form, and perform understandingly. These priceless jewels need 
the right kind of polishing to steadily improve and to fit them 
for future usefulness. Your relatives are all well except little 
P'rank, v/ho I fear never will be. Accept our love. Look to 
God for help and wisdom to guide and sustain you in your lonely 
hours. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — It is reported that your brother, D. S. M., was re- 
cently married^ to a daughter of my kinsman. Judge Benjamin 
F. Aletcalf, of Lima. She is a fine lad v. The judge is dead. 



JAMES H. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Thursday, April 13, 1865. 
My dear Wife : — Tomorrow is the day set apart by the 
Governor of this state to celebrate the fall of Richmond, and the 

1 They were not married. Miss Metcalf was married several months 
after tliis letter was written, to Gen. A. V. Rice, son of a wealthy- 
banker and land-owner of Ottawa, Ohio. Gen. Rice was born in Ohio No- 
vember IS. 1835; in the Civil War he became a brevet -brigadier general; 
and in 1874 was elected and two years later re-elected a democratic mem- 
ber of Congress. He is now comparatively penniless; and as a "Gold 
Democrat," or Republican, is holding a clerkship in one of the Depart- 
ments of the Government at Washington. His salary and pension enable 
him to live in fairly good style. Mrs. Rice when young was vivacious and 
attractive, and like her gifted father, Judge Metcalf, very bright. She 
has always been popular, and of great use to her husband in his public 
■career. 

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capture of the xVrmy of Northern Virginia, and I suppose I will 
be called on for a speech. I shall of course respond, but my 
remarks will be very brief. The country is in a high state of 
joyous excitement. The fall of Charleston and Petersburg and 
Richmond, and other strategic points, and the surrender of Gen. 
Lee and his army, followed each other in such rapid succes- 
sion that the people here have all been kept busy for several 
days "jollifying." The rebellion is generally believed to be sub- 
stantially over, — ended. I hope this will prove true, for the 
country is weary of the war. 

I made one grand mistake in Haml)urg in not purchasing, 
as I intended to do, many more U. S. 5-20 six per cent, gold 
bearing bonds, ^ for since I left Hamburg, the price of these 
bonds has greatly advanced. 

I returned from Upper Sandusky a week ago last Tuesday. 
The same evening T attended a party at Mr. Smith's, and have 
been invited to Judge Bowen's, Judge Bartram's, Dr. Fisher's, 
Robert King's, Mr. Fribley's, Mr. P. O. Sharpless's, and others. 
I have been shown many attentions. I received a letter today 
from Mr. F. F. Fowler. His wife and children are well. I shall 
start to Hamburg from New York on the 2gth inst., in the 
"Germania." 

Father is poorly and will hardly survive another four years. 
Kiss Mary and the boys for me. 

Afifectionately yours. 

Tames H. Anderson. 



JAMES H. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Sunday, April 16. 1865. 

My dear Wife : — We are all bowed down with the most 
crushing load of sorrow and anguish. Our great and good Presi- 
dent has been assassinated — assassinated by an actor, (said to 
be an English actor), named John Wilkes Booth. It occurred 
night before last (Friday) at Ford's theater in Washington. I 

1 1 bought some of these bonds at Hambui'g at one-third of their face 
value: payment for same made of course in gold. 

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have sent you a Cincinnati paper which contains all the known 
particulars of this hideous crime, and shall from this on send 
you regularly every paper containing anything new on the sub- 
ject. All day yesterday our church bells solemnly tolled, and lit- 
tle groups of sorrowing mourners stood around, — some silent, 
others talking of the horrible tragedy; many in tears. 

The same night at about the same hour, our noble Secretary 
of State, the Honorable William H. Seward, was murderously 
assaulted in his sick chamber with a dirk or poniard. He still 
lives. Knowing full well that Mr. Seward was confined to his 
bed, and helpless, from injuries received by being thrown from 
his carriage a few days before, yet the cowardly assassin plunged 
his dagger into the feeble invalid's face and neck five times. 
Thank God, he was not entirely successful ; but we fear that 
Mr. Seward, who was fearfully cut and slashed, will not recover. 

The same monster who attempted the life of the Secretary 
of State, also broke the skull and nearly killed the First As- 
.sistant Secretary of State, Mr. Frederick W. Seward, and severely 
wounjded Major Seward of the army, probably another son of 
the great Secretary. The assassin, at this writing, is unknown. 
Some think it possible that the same villain did it all, that is, 
Booth the actor. 

The Vice President, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, is now 
our President, and I beheve him to be- a brave and true man. 
A strong guard of soldiers is constantly around him. The rebels 
will find in Mr. Johnson, another sort of a man than Mr. Lincoln. 

We all look on our late President as the best man this con- 
tinent has produced since the days of Washington. What a loss 
is ours ! Mr. Lincoln, so gentle, so good, so moderate, so calm, 
so discreet, so wise, is indeed no more, and our people mourn 
his loss and tragic death with wild and passionate grief. 

I shall say no more now on this painful subject, as the news- 
papers will give you a fuller account of these awful, shocking, 
demoniac crimes that cry aloud to heaven for vengeance. I 
expect to leave here for Washington, next Tuesday or Wed- 
nesdav, and expect to sail out of New York liarbor for Ham- 
burg on the 2()th inst. * * * All join me in much love to 
■you all. 

Your affectionate husband. 
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james h. anderson to mrs. james ii. anderson. 

Department of State, 
Washington, D. C, April 27, 1865. 

My dear Wife : — I find it impossible for me to leave this 
city before two weeks from Saturday, the 29th inst., as I cannot 
etfect all my ends before, and possibly not that soon. 

I liad an interview last evening with our patriotic President, 
Andrew Johnson. The Hon. Thomas Corwin, and Col. T. P. 
Shaifner, as friends of mine, accompanied me to the White House. 
The President was very kind and cordial, and gave me some 
gratifying assurances. I may accomplish something after the 
funeral obsequies of our late lamented President. Until it is all 
over, and his remains sacredly entombed at his old home in 
Springfield, Illinois, nothing of importance and no appointments 
will be considered. Then the President will fill vacancies, etc. 

There is great excitement in Washington just now. Booth, 
the assassin of President Lincoln, has been taken, but unfor- 
tunately not alive. Booth's pursuers found him yesterday in a 
barn in Virginia, and refusing to surrender, he was shot by Bos- 
ton Corbett of the cavalry. All regret that he was not taken 
alive, tried, and executed. Nearly all of his accomplices have 
been captured. Hiey will undoubtedly swing. John H. Surratt 
is yet at large, but his mother is in custody.^ 

1 The assassins. Powell a/if/.s- Payne, Herold. Atzerodt, and Mrs. Sur- 
ratt having- been found guilty, were hanged July T, 1S65. O'Laughlin. 
Arnold, and Dr. Mudd received a sentence of life imprisonment. Spang^ler, 
a scene-shifter in Ford's theater, was sent to prison for six years. John 
H. Surratt, after long wandering in foreign lands, (a part of the time a 
member of the Pope's Life Guards in Rome.) was captured in Egypt, 
brought back to this country, and tried for his life. There was a disagree- 
ment of the jury, and as the case was never tried again, the man escaped 
the punishment -the people believed he richly deserved, 

"While attending a party at the residence of Mr, Stanton, the Secre- 
tary of War, he told me if I would like to visit the Washington Peni- 
tentiary where the assassins were on trial, to call at the War Depart- 
ment and get a card of admission, Witli a friend I called the next day. 
The card now in my possession reads: 

"Military Commission, 

"Washington, May 21, 1865, 
"Admit: James H, Anderson and H. B. Haswell. 

"D. Hunter, 
"President of the Commission." 

Mr, Stanton wrote on the card the date, and our names, and said he 
would be happy to see me at any time during my stay in the city. Al- 

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The condition of JVlrs. Lincoln is quite serious. The tragic 
death of the President nearly killed the poor woman. Hon. 
William H. Seward and Hon. Frederick W. Seward, his son, are 
doing well. The Secretary of State drove out yesterday. 

The government has spared neither men nor money in heroic 
efforts to capture the assassins. The credit is largely due to Mr. 
Stanton, the Secretary of War. * * * 

Before returning to Germany I must inspect the fortifi- 
cations around Washington, and visit Richmond. How little I 
have seen since my return to the U. S. In Ohio I was every 
day at work ; and in this "city of magnificent distances" I have 
not seen everything. 

On Tuesday, the 25th inst., at 6 p. m. I dined at the Prus- 
sion Legation, by invitation of Baron von Gerolt, the Prussian 
minister, and dean of the corps diplomatique. I found the Baron 
a very pleasant old gentleman. He is the father-in-law, you will 
remember, of young Mr. John Ward (son of the British minister 
at Hamburg), who is in the judiciary department of the British 
civil, service in India, or Hindoostan. Mr. Hunter, the Acting 
Secretary of State, and other prominent people, sat at the table. 

The evening of the same day, about 10 o'clock, I attended 
a party at the house of Mr. Bradley, an eminent lawyer of 
Washington. Both entertainments were unexceptionable, and 
quite like many I have enjoyed at Hamburg. * * * I am 
anxious to see you and the children. Give them my love, and 
believe me. Yours affectionatelv. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Wednesday June 2S, 1865. 

Dear Son : — I this day received yours of the 12th inst. You 
say I have not answered your letter asking my opinion as to the 
advisability of exchanging your Consular position for that of 

though he was considered by some people rough and brutal. I was never 
treated with more true politeness. He and his father, Dr. Stanton, were 
friends of my mother's family, the Dunlevys, of Jef¥erson county, Ohio. I 
only remained in the large room where the assassins were being tried a 
short time. Several of them I thought had hard cruel faces. There I 
met my old acquaintance, Hon. John A. Bingham, who as judge-advocate., 
was conducting the prosecution for the Government.. 

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Fifth Auditor of the Treasury of the U. S. Your mother and 
I answered that fuHy, and sent the letter to you, care St. Nicholas 
Hotel, N. Y., as you recjuested. As you did not get the letter I 
this day wrote to the hotel proprietor to return it to me. Your 
mother nor myself are in favor of the change. We do not th:nk it 
would he to your advantage or that of your family. 

1. Washington is not considered healthy. 

2. Y^ou would not he as independent. 

3. Your labors would be more arduous. 

4. The salary would not support you in the style you main- 
tain in Hamburg. 

5. The honor of the position is much less. 

Now if Washington is not so healthy, and }-ou would be 
less independent, if your labors would be greater, and your in- 
come less, and if the honors attaching to the office are less, why 
make the proposed change or exchange ? The climate of Ham- 
burg seems to agree with you, the position is an honorable one, 
and the compensation better than the other. Fifth Auditor is 
not much of an office. It will just suit a penniless person whose 
business or profession will not support hiiu, and who cares noth- 
ing for a post of honor. 

Now as to your money matters : * * -■• I expect to be 
able to place to your credit at the Irving National Bank of New 

Y^ork $ , and if I sell your liank stock, the proceeds of that in 

addition. I have seen no one who wants to buy it except Robert 
Kerr.^ I think I can sell to him. * * * Gold ranges at 40 
to 42 per cent, premium. The country is healthy, and things 
are gradually settling down as before the war. The states lately 
in rebellion are becoming very loyal, and a great manv northern 
people are seeking homes and investments in the south, partic- 
ularly in Tennessee and Alabama. We have fine growing weather, 
and hay wheat and corn have seldom looked better. Write often. 
God bless you all. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



1 A wealthy land owner, cattle raiser, and flock master; also a larg-e 
stockholder in the First National Bank of Marion, and in other banks. 



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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 3, 1865. 

My dear Son : — Your lines from New York and Ham- 
burg came duly to hand. I thank God that . (through cloud and 
fog) you arrived safely in Hamburg. You want me to sell your 
bank stock, and deposit the proceeds and all other moneys at 
the Irving National Bank, N. Y. Your notes all bear 8 per cent., 
and are well secured. The following notes * * * y^[\\ be 
paid as soon as the makers sell their wool. Wool at this time is 
only worth 50 to 53 cents in this market. We think it may sell 
higher. 

1 \vish you would let me know what agreement you made 
with David Harpster, what you agreed to allow him for clear- 
ing that three-cornered piece of land on the Radnor road, and 
for other improvements on the Rolling Plain, (which he has 
leased), so that I can settle with him October ist, when the first 
rent becomes due. 

I discover from the state of feeling in our country that Maxi- 
milian will have to leave Mexico. Our people are now deter- 
mined to live up to the jMonroe Doctrine. They will not allow 
any European power to aid in the establishment of a monarchy 
on this continent. 

As slavery is dead — and it is a great consolation — now is 
a good time for Germans to come to the United States. Every- 
thing is plenty, provisions of all kinds, and wages high. Labor- 
ers are getting for common labor $1.75 to $2.00 per day. 
There never was a better time for farmers and mechanics. Our 
Germans are nearly all getting rich, that is, all that work, and 
they mostly work. Peace now reigns throughout the United 
States. Our soldiers are fast being discharged and are return- 
ing to their homes. 

Tom Dye has made an assignment to Judge Ozias Bowen. 
It is supposed that he is entirely broken up. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

F. S. — I hope Princess and the children are well. How I 
should like to see them all again over here. We received a lock 
of Charley's chestnut hair. He nmst be a fine boy. Tell James 

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I want to see him very much. I beHeve he is a very good boy. 
Tell Alary I know she will study her books and improve in 
music. Tell her Cora attends school regularly, and is getting 
to be a good player on the piano. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H, ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 2, 1865. 

Dear Son : — We were pleased to learn through your letter 
to Annie that your trip to Paris was. so pleasant, and that Prin- 
'Cess thoroughly enjoyed it. ■■'• '■■■ '■' Our Marion soldiers, ex- 
cept those of the 64th regiment, have nearly all got back home, 
that is all of the poor fellows that are left. Capt. T. Eugene 
Tillotson is still in the army, and is now supposed to be on the 
Rio Grande, in Texas. He was at home on a short furlough just 
before his regiment (the 64th) was ordered from New Orleans 
to Texas. All the members of his father's familv are well. 

It is now believed here that Maximilian will have to leave- 
Mexico. Our people are determined that the Monroe Doctrine 
shall be enforced, that European nations shall not interfere with 
the ]x;)litical affairs of our American continent, nor be permitted 
to substitute their system of government for ours. 

Gen. Cox^ has been nominated, and is now the Union can- 
didate for governor of this state. The Democrats have not yet 
made their nominations for state offices. Gold is still about 40 
per cent, premium. Vegetables are very abundant here and the 
grape crop was never better, though apples and peaches are scarce, 
owing to a late frost. John Gurley raised 200 bushels of black- 
berries, which he has been selling at 15 cents per quart. Wool 
is selling at from 63 to 70 cents per lb. Some flock-masters are 

1 Gen. J. D. Cox, born at Montreal. October 27, 1828. became a ma.ior- 
general in 1862, served under Sherman in Georgia in 1864, and in Decem- 
ber, ]S()4, commanded a division at the battle of Nashville. He was elected 
governor of Ohio in 186.5. was appointed Secretary of the Interior in 1869, 
and was elected a member of the 4.5th Congress. He is the author of a 
valuable work in two volumes entitled. Military Reminiscences of the Civil 
War. He died at Magnolia, Mass., August 4. 1900, just before liis work 
was published. 

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holding for 75. Pasture is so plenty this season that there is not. 
half enough stock to eat it. God bless you all. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Monday, Sept. 11, 1865. 

My DEAR Son : — Yours of the 20th ult. came duly to hand. 
You wish to know if Chaffee has signed lease and notes thereto. 
He has : all right. 

Tom Dye has "gone up." He will not pay in full nor any- 
thing like it, nor is it much wonder. He is a wild, reckless oper- 
ator, and speculator. No other failures in these parts, nor rumors 
of any. There is no good reason for any one failing here now 
for everything one has for sale sells readily at a big price. 

Your U. S. 7-30 bonds are $500 each, except one of $100. 
As fast as your notes are paid I will invest the money in U. 
S. 7-30 bonds. Money is in great demand, and brings 10 per 
cent. Judge Bowen says he gets 12, but I never let him know 
what I am doing. 

F. F. Fowler 'offered Bowen 10 per cent, per annum for 
$25,000 for two years. Bowen declined the offer, unless Fowler 
would consent to take $10,000 of it in U. S. 10-40 bonds at par. 
That Fowler refused to do. These bonds bear 5 per cent only. 
Fowler is going to leave his large stock farm, move to Upper 
Sandusky, and start a factory for the manufacture of agricul- 
tural implements. A had enterprise at this time I fear, as labor 
and materials are very high.^ Bowen fears it also. Scott Fow- 
ler, his brother, is going to Tennessee. He will there embark 
in speculation. In leaving his farm he is also making a mistake T 
fear. He will fall into the hands of sharpers, and not being a 
sharper himself, nor much of a scholar, they will fleece him. 

It is now warmer than it has been this season. Yesterday 
and the day before the thermometer stood at 98, and it is very 

1 When F. F. Fowler left his large stock farm he was a rich man. He 
went to manufacturing some of his own inventions on which he had secured 
patents, and soon failed. His wife was my wife's half sister. 

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<lanip withal. Tilings are nioukling in all the houses ; potatoes are 
rottiiijj in the ground. 

I was greatly interested in what y(ju had to say in your 
last about the arrival of an Anieriean vessel at the port of Ham- 
burg, from our (old) Congressional District, laden with black 
walnut logs and stumps. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

1 Tiffin, Ohio, June 5, 1865. 

James H. Anderson. Ksq., 

United States Consul. City of Hamburg: 
My Dear Sir: — I have the honor to introduce my townsman and friend, 
Mr. Gangrolf Schmidt, who visits your city and other ports in Europe as 
supei'cargo of several vessels, laden with lumber, direct from my Congres- 
sional District. Mr. Schmidt is a most worthy man in every respect. Any 
kindness or courtesy you may be able to show him will be duly appreciated 
by him, and also by 

Your friend, 

W. P. Noble. 

P. S. — I think you promised me a letter when we met in Washington 
a short time ago. Best wishes to you and yours. Noble. 



Mr. Gangolf Schmidt called upon me at the U. S. Consulate at Hamburg, 
In the summer of 1865, and handed me the above letter from Hon. Warren 
P. Noble. He came to that port as supercargo of the schooner W. S. 
Pierson, owned by Henry Zahn, of Tiffin, Ohio, whose register was issued 
by the Collector of the port of Sandusky. This neat little craft — registered 
tonnage 305 — came all the way, through rivers and lakes and oceans, under 
sail, from the Sandusky river, laden with black walnut logs, the only 
vessel probably from that river or district that ever reached Hamburg. I 
showed Mr. Schmidt all the courtesies in my power, aided him in selling 
his cargo, and at last in selling the schooner. Both sold fairly well, par- 
ticularly some large black walnut stumps, for veneers, that in Ohio at that 
day were valueless. Both Schmidt and Zahn were very grateful for my 
aid. Mr. Noble also wrote me how they felt. 

Mr. Henry Zahn may have only owned the cargo; the schooner may 
have been owned in Sandusky. Schmidt, the supercargo, however, was 
authorized to dispose of both. 

The vessel was regarded as a curiosity, was visited by hundreds, and 
known all over the harbor as "the American three-masted schooner with a 
■center-board." 

Hon. Warren P. Noble, whose Congressional District in 1861-65 embraced 
Marion county, was boi-n June 14, 1820, near Berwick, Pa., has lived nearly 
all his life in Ohio, and is now (1903) one of the best lawyers and most 
respected citizens in the state. He has practiced law in Tiffin for sixty 
years, during which time he has held many high and important offices, and 
places of trust and honor. He has achieved success in many fields: in 
law, in politics, in finance, in civics, in domestic life, and in time charities. 
During the Civil War he was patriotic, stainless and true, "faithful among 
the faithless found." Such a citizen is an honor to his state. 

Hon. Warren P. Noble died (since the above was written), July 8th, 
1903. 

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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Septenil^er 24, 1865. 

Dear Son : — Yours of the 2d inst. came to hand yester- 
day, also a box containing articles for your mother and Annie. 
I received the two meerschaum pipes ; they are very handsome. 
] sent you a letter day before yesterday, which you will probably 
get at the same time you get this. 

You wish to know something about my father's farm in Va.,. 
on which I was born. It is on the Potomac, commonly called the 
North Branch of the Potomac, in Hampshire county, now in 
West Virginia. 1 My great-grandfather, my grandfather, and 
my father, all lived on and owned the celebrated Anderson Bot- 
tom. It has ever been known, and is known to-day by that 
name, and no other. Renick Seymour now owns "the Ander- 
son Bottom," at least that part of it owned by my father and 
grandfather. It lies on the south side of the Potomac river, 
which you know separates West Virginia from Alaryland. It is 
live miles west of Cumberlan'd, and the P>altimore and Ohio Rail- 
road, on the Maryland side, is in sight of the house. On the 
place is a fine large brick dwelling house, erected by Mr. Sey- 
mour. The cultivated lands are all river bottom, but the farm 
extends up into what is called Knobley Mountain. That part is 
kept for timber, but is very good for sheep. I do not recollect 
the number of acres. Better land is not to be found than the 

i "West Virginia ceased to be a part of the Old Dominion on tlie 20tli 
day of June. 1863, tlie day she was admitted into tlie Union as an inde- 
pendent state. During- the Revolution, the West Virginia of today was one 
vast battlefield, crimsoned almost daily and enriched by the blood of her 
gallant sons. Every mountain peak and lonely glen is historic, recalling 
the heroism of her sons and daughters, and blood-curdling tales of cruelty 
and suffeiing at the hands of Indian savages who came from beyond the 
beautiful Ohio river, swooping down upon the poor defenceless settlers. 
Almost every old family in the state, including my own, lost near and 
dear relatives by the incursions of these red-handed savages, — the blood- 
thirsty emissaries of the British post at Detroit. No people in our country, 
not excepting Kentucky, or Western Pennsylvania, felt the horrors of the 
Revolution like those living in the counties now embraced in this state." 
Froni the Annual Report of (my cousin) Miss Valley Virginia Henshaw, 
State Regent of West Virginia, read before the 11th Continental Congress 
of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, that 
convened in Washington City, February 17, 1902. Published in the American 
Monthly Magazine, April, 1902. 



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river bottom. 1 wish some of our family owned it. I know T 
should be glad to own it. 

When I was upon the jilace four years ago last spring, I 
was told that it could not be bought for less than $150.00 per 
acre, l)ut my informant only supposed so. There is no way to get 
to or from the farm with a carriage or wagon except by cross- 
ing the river, which is easy enough to do when the water is 
not high. Knobley Mountain, at the south of the place, can be 
crossed in a carriage or wagon after a road a mile in length, 
up its side, has been made, which was in contemplation four 
years ago. The expense of the road would fall mainly on the 
owner of the Anderson Bottom. This is the near way, riding 
or driving to Roniney the county seat, which is situate on the 
South Ih-anch of the Potomac, 15 or 18 miles distant. If you 
should travel on the Baltimore and Oliio railroad upon your 
return, go and see the old ])lace, and let Mr. Seymour know 
who you are. Your ancestors ov/ned it till February 26, 1806, 
when my father and grandfather sold it to Col. Daniel Collins,^ 
who I think sold it to ^Ir. Seymour. 

I believe I gave vou in my last the denominations, numbers 
and dates of vour bonds. The first interest will fall due the 
15th of January next. You know each $1000 bond draws $73.00 
per annum. I wish you had your Deal Farm in monev, to in- 
vest in U. S. 7-30 bonds. David Har]:)Ster. whom I saw last v/eek, 

1 In Deed Book No. 13, page 226 of the Records of Hampshire county, 
Virginia, (now W. Va.), I And that on April 16, 1803, my great-grandfather 
Thomas Anderson, of Hampshire county. Va., conveyed to his son James 
Anderson, in consideration of $1.00, quite a large tract off the upper part 
of the land on which he lived known as "the Anderson Bottom." 

In Deed Book No. 14. of said Hampshire county records, page 459, 1 
find that said Thomas Anderson, of said county, on tlie 26th day of Febru- 
ary, 1806, conveyed to Daniel Collins, all the land granted to William 
Anderson, his father, by Thomas, Lord Fairfax, July 12, 1762, and by the 
said William, transferred to said Thomas, by deed of gift. May 18th, 1791, 
except the tract of land named above, which had been conveyed by 
Thomas to liis son James. 

I find further in said Deed Book No. 13, page 170, that Thomas An- 
derson, on November 19, 1802, conveyed to Martin Shafer 206 acres, on the 
waters of Gibbons' and Crooked run, branches of Little North River, and 
Little Capecapehon, and ad.ioining- lands of Alex, (^liisholm. and John 
Haggerty, and that said land is part of a tract granted to William Ander- 
son, by the proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia, Lord Fairfax, by 
deed of July 7, 1777, and by William Anderson and his wife Margaret, 
conveyed to said Thomas Anderson, July 22, 1797, I am indebted to Robert 
White. Esq., the very capable and obliging attorney, in Romney. West Va.. 
for much valuable data relating to some of my paternal ancestors. 



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says there has not been a tree cut on the RoUing Plain ,(640- 
acre farm), since you were here. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



TPIOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, November 4, 1865. 

Dear Son : — I loaned S. M. F. $ , taking his note 

therefor payable in two years, and I took four coupon notes for 
the interest. I think it is always best to have the interest paid 
as fast as it becomes due, for then no advantage is likely to be 
taken in case of the death of the maker. I think it better to 
loan than to invest in government bonds. 

This year the taxes are very high. The several townships 
promised extra bounties, over and above the government boun- 
ties, to encourage volunteering and to avoid a draft ; and then 
the* Ohio Legislature passed an act to have all extra bounties 
assessed on the taxpayers and placed on the duplicate, and col- 
lected as other taxes. This year, I l)elieve, pays up all soldier 
bounties, so that the taxes hereafter will not be so high. The levy 
in Pitt township this year to pay soldier bounties amounted to 
$3,600. 

[ have not vet paid all your Wyandot coun.ty taxes, but I 
have paid on the River Farm. You know that nearly all your 
Wyandot lands are in Pitt township. True, there are 240 acres 
in Marseilles township, on whicli I must pay on or before the 
20th of December. Tn Marion corporation we pay at the rate of 
$2.25 on each $100. 

Do you want me to sell your ^Marion county farm, the Deal 
farm? I think it ought to bring $35.00 per acre. If you wish 
to sell it and leave it to mv judgment, notify me. I think it is 
worth $35.00, the way other lands are selling. 

As to the old Anderson Bottom plantation in Virginia, T will 
try to give you further particulars hereafter : and also in regard 
to oiu- Virginia ancestors, (uve my love to Princess anrl the 
children. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 
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P. S. — The recent «;reat hre has caused nearly aU our citi- 
zens to insure their l)uil(Hngs. The local agents of the eastern 
•companies in which they insure are James S. Reed, and John 
E. Davids. Those who suffered by the fire were pretty well in- 
sured except Captain E. Hardy, who did not carry a dollar of 
insurance. A. H. Kling was paid $7,500, John Leonard $2,000, 
Johnson, Uhler & Co., were fully paid, also Lucas & Seffner, 
Judge Bartram, and Tim. Fahey. h^rank Campbell and A. H. 
Kling are now erecting' fine brick business blocks. All the others 
are going- to put u]) .solid l)rick buildings. No wooden buildings 
will be allowed. I have just insured my dwelling house on East 
Center street for $3,500. 

T. J. A. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, December 6. 1865. 

]\Iv dear Son: — Your letters of the nth and 20th ult. 
came duly to hand, the former while I was on a visit to Lan- 
caster, Ohio, to see my uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Allen 
House. I found them quite feeble, l)Ut uncle v/as much stronger 
than I expected to see him. 

T have just jiaid your taxes in this and Wyandot county. 
The\- were enormously high, but hereafter there will l)e no taxes 
collected to pay "soldier bounties." 

Xow as to the Anderson Bottom in A'irginia. When at 
Lancaster, I saw a man who lives near the place, and knows it 
well. He savs it contains about 700 acres, and that it could not 
be bought of its jirescnt owner, Renick Seymour, for less than 
$100,000, if at all. So the thing is up with us. He further in- 
formed me that Mr. Seymour sympathized with the South, dur- 
ing the war. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — Rev. S. D. Bates, the Free-Will Baptist preacher, 
Avished me to write you on the subject of a subscription to aid 
in the erection of their new church on East Center street. 

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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES 11. ANi:)ERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, December 25, 1865. 

Mv Son: — Your long letters of the 27th and 30th of No- 
vember received. The correspondent of the London Times is not 
reliable. He magnifies every thing in favor of Virginia. The 
writer in the Times is a rebel fop, or a land agent for some of 
the broken down rebels ; it is easy to be seen from his style of 
writing. I speak from my own personal knowledge, for I have 
been over a good part of the Valley of the Shenandoah. It is 
a good section of the country, but nothing like what the writer 
wishes to hold out to the people of England. He wishes to 
draw monied men over here to induce them to speculate. Farms 
in the Valley never sold before the war at from $300 to $400 
per acre. Small tracts of from 2 to 6 acres, near Martinsburg 
.or Winchester, may have sold that high for gardens or as build- 
ing sites, but no farms. I will write to Mr. Pollock, formerly of 
Bellefontaine, Ohio, but now a practicing lawyer in \\Tnchester. 
Va., on the subject. 

I wrote you a letter a few v/eeks ago respecting the An- 
derson Bottom, and the price it is held at. It is owned you 
know by Renick Seymour'^ who also owns a large body of moun- 
tain land adjoining it. I am told that Seymour if willing to 
sell vv'ould not take less than $100,000 for the place. This in- 
cludes his mountain and bottom land. I would not give half 
that sum if I were worth half a million ; for nothing but the 
name and the fact that it was so long owned by my ancestors, 
would now induce me, after living here so long, to live there. 
Knobley Mountain on one side, and the Potomac on the other, 

1 I am much indebted to Mr. C. H. Caudy, a son-in-law of Mr. Renick 
Seymour, and a scholarly gentleman, for much information which I value- 
highly, respecting tne old place known as The Anderson Bottom, the old 
Anderson dwelling house, the old Anderson burying ground, and concern- 
ing relatives in the neighborhood of the Anderson Bottom, particularly those- 
related to my grandmother Priscilla House. 

The old Anderson dwelling house was taken down by Mr. Caudy. and' 
Mr. Seymour, a few years ago, and the heavy piece.s of timber used in its 
construction were found to be sound and strong. Only wrought iron nails- 
were used, one of which — a very large one — Mr. Caudy kindly sent me- 
as a souvenir of the old structure. He also sent me a lively sketch or 
drawing of the unique old homestead, representing the entire landscape,, 
mountain, valley, and river — a scene of beauty, if not sublimity. 

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cut one off from free or good access to the farm. You need not 
fear that the farm will be sold so long as Seymour holds it at 
that price. A part of the mountain l)elonged to our Anderson 
Bottom farm. Now 1 have so little faith that we could 1)uv the 
place that J do not feel like going down, but after you get this 
letter, if you are still of the opinion you were. I will go and 
see it and do my best. * *. * 

Our neighbor, Capt. John B. Williams,^ was married this 
week to a Miss Rebecca Rutan, of Bellefontaine. His mother 
gave a large party night before last to celebrate the event, which 
we all attended. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES U. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, Decemlier 2y, 1865. 

Dear Son : — Enclosed is a deed which you and your wife- 
will please sign and acknowledge before a proper officer, and 
return to me. You can write the acknowledgement. The lot 
therein described was sold by Mr. David Harpster, — the owner 
of an undivided one half of the same — and he and wife, R. N. 
Tavlor and wife, and D. S. Miller, have already executed a con- 
veyance. The lot is on the southwest corner of Johnston street 
and Sandusky avenue. Upper Sandusky, ( )hio. 

I sent you a letter the 25th on the subject of our old home 
place in Hampshire county, Virginia. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

1 Captain William.s was an industrious young man. rather modest, but 
successful in business, and a No. 1 soldier. His wife was good looking, 
well educated, piously inclined, and an interesting heiress-apparent. 



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THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, January 13, i! 

My Son : — Robert Mitchell has not jDaid his two notes 
amounting to $2,273. When I receive the same I will loan it 
to Mr. F. F. Fowler, who is now living in Upper Sandusky, in 
the residence owned by the heirs of Mrs. Sarah Miller. Its last 
occupant was Mr. S. Watson, the cashier of the First Nat. Bank. 
While at Mr. Fowler's a few days since, I saw Mr. D. S. Miller, 
who had lately returned from his Alabama plantation. He will 
start back to Alabama to-day. On the Tombigbee river he owns 
a cotton plantation of 5,000 acres or more, and I was surprised to 
hear that he employs thereon 300 negroes, who were slaves of 
the late planter until the collapse of the Confederate government. 

Miller is a bold speculator or plunger for a youth. I hope 
his operations may prove profitable, for he has a fortune at stake. 
While here he borrowed of Judge Bowen $9,000, for the use of 
which he no doubt pays well, as the judge refused to loan F. 
F. Fowler $25,000 at 10 per cent. But you have some knowledge 
of the judge's rates, and of his way of loaning money. He says 
he only wants "living rates." 

I have leased the Rolling Plain from the first of April next 
to James H. Lindsey, Wesley McClain and William Miller, all 
good men. Wm. Miller is well-off, and a cousin, as vou are 
probably aware, of the late David Miller. 

You will hear with deep regret of the death of our friend 
Gov. Thomas Corwin, of Lebanon, Ohio. He received a para- 
lytic stroke in Washington City on the 15th ult., and died on the 
i8th, without regaining consciousness. He was the greatest orator 
in America since Henry Clay, and his death was a distinct shock 
to the state and the country. How the old Whigs loved to hear 
his clarion voice ! Since resigning the Mexican Mission he has 
not been in public life. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



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JUDGE CHARLES T. SHERMAN^ TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Washington, D. C, December 16, 18G5. 

My dear Sir: — -Since writing 3'ou the enclosed letter, I have to 
announce the same as the death of our friend. Gov. Corwin.' Last night 
while he was attending a party at the house of Mr. Wetmore, the Ohio 
State Military Agent, and while surrounded by Ohioans, telling stories to 
the admiring crowd, he was instantly struck down with paralysis, and is 
now lying insensible. He cannot possibly survive 24 hours. A bright 
spirit and unsurpassed genius is thus passing away. 

Your truly, 

C. T. Sherman. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO J.^MES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, January 23d, 1866. 

Dear Son : — Herewith find an abstract of your assets in 
my hands, consisting of notes, U. S. bonds. National Bank stock, 
and money. * * * 

Mr. L.onis F. Raichley has just got back from North Caro- 
hna, but I have had no chance to settle with him. He did not 
do as well as he expected to, but says he thinks you will be en- 
tirely satisfied. Do not fail to send me Mr. Raichley's receipt, or 
note, if you want me to settle with him, and collect the amount 
due vou. He will settle just as he agreed for Louis is entirely 

1 1 knew the late Judge Charles T. Sherman, brother of Senator Slier- 
man, many years. We became intimate friends, and wrote many letters 
to each other. I have a number of his letters now. several quite lengthy. 
He was a director of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. ; was U. S. District 
Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and held other positions. He 
was born in Norwalk, Conn., February 3, ISll, and died in Cleveland. 
January 1, 1S79. I always found him a true friend, and an upright man. 
One of his beautiful daughters married U. S. Senator, J. Donald Cameron 
of Pa.; another married Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who became commander- 
in-chief of the U. S. Army. 

2 Gov. Thomas Corwin of Ohio, whose splendid career need not be re- 
counted here, was born in Bourbon county, Ky., July 29, 1794. As a child 
four years old he came to Warren county, Ohio, with his parents, where 
he grew to manhood. I made his acquaintance in 1850, and became his 
devoted friend and follower. Ever since I have considered him the most 
entertaining public man, the most eloquent orator, and the rarest genius 
that ever lived in this state. I received a letter from Gov. Corwin. in 
Germany, only a short time before his death, which took place December 
18, 1865. 

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honest. I never received a line from Louis, nor heard a word 
on the subject till he came home. Now just tell me what you 
want me to do, and what to do with the money should Mr. R. 
pay it over. Since commencing this letter I have seen Raichley. 

He will pay me the money $ , which you let him have, and 

$ , your share of the profits. He^ expected to do better, 

but could not because the President opened the southern ports 
to trade, giving every trader an equal chance. Mr. R. will write 
you a letter of explanation. Your father, 

T. T- Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion. Ohio, February 5, 1866. 

My dear Son: — Your letter of January 6th came duly to 
hand. You do not understand Mr. . He cannot be in- 
fluenced. He will only do what he sees fit to do of his own ac- 
cord. He sets himself against those who trv to influence him, 
or induce him to do what does not please him. The last time 1 
saw him was in December, and at his request. I shall visit him 
between this and March ist if able. My back is so weak that it 
is more or less painful to get about. 

1 Note — Louis P. Raichley (son of G. Fredericli Raichley, born in Wur- 
temburg, June 5, 1791), was born in Rushville, Fairfield county, Ohio, October 
16. 1826, was educated at the Marion Academy, at the Ohio University and 
at Washington and Jefferson College, Pa., from which he received Sep- 
tember 25, 1845, the degree of A. B. He was admitted to the bar at Marion, 
April 7. 1853. In October 1858 he was elected Auditor of Marion county, 
defeating Hon. Geo. H. Busby. He was the finest scholar that ever lived 
in Marion; as a mathematician he had no equal, nor as a Greek scholar. 
He was very eccentric, but a true friend, lionest and honorable every day 
in the year. In' mattei's of religion he was probably an agnostic. He 
held in high estimation the writings of Thomas Paine. He considered 
Aaron Burr an able, patriotic American citizen, and better than any of 
his traducers. Robespierre, "the monster of the French Revolution and Reign 
of Terror," with all his faults, Mr. Raichley believed had done more for 
human liberty, and the regeneration of France, than any man that ever 
lived, and wlien Robespierre's reputation was assailed he always had some- 
thing to say in his defense. Louis F. Raichley died in Marion, November 
21. ]Sr)6, leaving a widow, an invalid daughter, and one son, Burr Raichley. 
— born September 11, 1861 — a man of education, of good ability, and of 
real integrity. He also left his widow and children a competence. His mother 
who died May 15, 1860, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia. His 
father died in Marion, November 11, 1862. The Raichleys came to Marion 
in the spring of 1835. 

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I have settled with Air. Louis F. Kaichley, who paid me 
— . When we first examined the account we made it a httle 



more, and I wrote you to that efit'ect ; but when we tinaUv set- 
tled we found only the above sum due you, and I believe it is 
all right, for Louis^ is honest. He has all the papers and will 
show them to you at any time. He has started to Louisville, 
Ky., to assist Gen. Joseph F. Boyd, and thinks of making that 
city his future home. I think Louis is auditor of the Railroad 
of which Gen. Boyd is general superintendent. 

I this day loaned Mr. F. F. Fowler $2,500, with F. Wicks, 
his partner, and the Beery Brothers, of Upper Sandusky, as sure- 
ties. F. F. F. would have got Rush, his brother, on his notes, 
but for the affliction in his family. He cannot leave home, for 
his wife lies low with diphtheria, and little Princess with wh.oop- 
ing cough. I sent him the money. 

It was four degrees below zero this morning, but we are all 
quite comfortable, as we have plenty of dry hickory wood, and 
a good warm house, as you know. I am now paying $4.50 per 
cord for green hickory wood, four feet long, which we do not 
expect to use till next winter. I like to 1)uy when the roads 
are good. I was very glad to see Mary's German letter to Cora. 
Our German neighbors, Mr. Jo. L'lman, Mr. Charles Munzen- 
berg and Mr. Julius Strelitz, read it with delight, saying it was 
very good. * * * 

A good deal of property is now changing hands. Air. John 
Siebert- sold his old store house property for $5,500. old John 
Kraner sold his business house for $6,200, George Smith bought 
the old B. H. Williams store house (i6-i- feet), of L. C. Haines 
for $6,000, Henry Thomas sold his old frame dwelling house ad- 
joining the old Methodist ])arsonage on Fast street, to W. H. 
Monre. the artist, for $1,500, J. S. Reed sold the double frame 
structure built by O. R. Stone on East street for $1,800. He 
also sold his little frame banking house on East Center street to 



1 Mr. Louis F. Raichley settled the matter involving- quite a large sum 
in a very satisfactory manner. He was absolutely honest, and one of the 
fairest men I ever had any dealings with. His intelligent son. Burr Raichley, 
is much like him in that respect. 

- John Siebert and wife, after the death of their son Cyrus, returned 
to Shaferstown, Pa. John died April 13, 1877, at the age of 76, and Sarah his 
wife, June 28. 1882, at the age of 80. 

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Jacob Snyder for $2,100. Many other sales of Marion^ real es- 
tate that I do not now recall have been made and at good prices. 
Farms command $50 to $75 per acre ; few are selling, and l)ut few 
offered. 

Annie, with a nnmber of other yonng ladies, is now on the 
ice skating. It is becoming a fashionable amusement for ladies, 
married and single, and some are pretty good skaters. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS. J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, February 12, 1866. 

My Son : — Yours of the loth ult. received. You want to 
know how long my grandfather owned the Anderson Bottom 
farm. That I cannot tell. My great-grandfather was the first 
settler on it. That is how it came by the name, but I cannot 
give the exact date of settlement. If you still think of buying 
it, or any other real property in Virginia, I would like to ac- 
company vou when you go to that state to make investigations, 
but my opinion is you better not think too much of buying 
lands there, till you get better information of the state of things, 
and tlie extent of the rebellious feeling among leading Virginians. 

In the Valley of Virginia I have some distant relatives of 
the name of Henshaw, of good family, who I am informed are 
true Union people. I was once at their place. They live near 
Bunker Hill in Berkeley county. The ancestor of many of the 
Henshaws in Berkeley, Capt. William Henshaw,^ married my 
grandfather's sister. Many of the Henshaws have moved away. 
I think I could rely on them for information as to the value 
of lands in their county, for (if any of the old stock is in 
them) they are very honorable. I am well acquainted with An- 
derson Henshaw. I fear you will never buy our ancestral home 

'^ Marion has now (1903) a number of very successful manufacturing 
establisliments. It has a population of about 16.000, is steadily advancing, 
and is one of the very best live towns in the state. 

- Captain William Hensliaw was in the Dunmore war under Lord Dun- 
more and in the American revolution. He owned several valuable plan- 
tations in the Valley of Virginia. His home place had 600 acres; he 
owned anotner of 400, and another of 300 acres; and one in Kentucky of 
2,000 acres. 

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in Virginia. It is held for much more than you or I would give 
for it, and I think double what it is worth. 

Your uncle John Anderson^ is in very poor health. * '^ "^ 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — I have never worn the fine hlack broadcloth suit 
you brought me but once. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, February 26, 1866. 

My Son : — Yours of the 20th ult. enclosing deed for the 
Upper Sandusky lot, duly received. You ask if I gave David 
Harpster a chance to rent the Rolling Plain. I did and told 

him he could have it for $ per annum. Pie told me to rent 

it to some one else, for he would not give it. Pie is very well 
satisfied that I gave him a fair chance. 

I will try to sell your Deal Farm to George Rhodes. I told 
him $T,^ per acre was my price. I will try to sell your land 
adjoining- Little Sandusky. I sent money to Joseph J. Kelly, of 
Clinton, De Witt county. 111., to pay your taxes. He is a reliable 
man. You have no farms for rent this year. The leases run 
another year. 

I am glad that we did not buy the A'irginia plantation, for 
the reason that matters are very unsettled as yet in all the states 
that were in rebellion, as you will see by the newspapers, by 
the proceedings in Congress, and the late veto of the President. 
I do not pretend to say whether the veto is right, or wrong; but 
that with many other things is causing a great deal of trouble 
in our country, and I fear a great rupture in the Cabinet at 
Washington. Rebels are rejoicing and L'nion men are cast down, 
but we hope for the best. 

1 Like most feeble people he livcl to c good old ase. He n-a.'? born 
March 4, 1803, and died January 3. 1888. The day before he died he was 
imprudent enough to drive to his farm for a load of wood, where he fell 
on the ice and broke his thigh bone. Otherwise he might have lived to 
be 104, the age of his great-grandfather, and which he assured me a short 
time before the accident he expected to reach. 

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You say if I want anything to let you know. An overcoat 
would come in good use if I should live till next winter, one 
large across the shoulders. I do not care for one that is very 
fine, liut a warm lieavy coat would suit me. My love to all. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. s. — Mrs. Wildbahn bought a draft of J. S. Reed & Co., 
for four pounds, ten shillings, which I sent you on the third, 
together with a letter from Mrs. W. to your wife,' telling how she 
wanted the money spent. 



TIIOMA.S J. ANDERSON TO JAAIES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March 12, 1866. 

Mv Son : — I received yours of the 6th ult. containing en- 
closures, which I remailed. I learn from Joseph J. Kelly, of 
Clinton, 111., that Wm. H. North of that place is a reliable man, 
who will do as he agrees. I sent Mr. N. your letter and if he 
is willing to take the land on your terms the business can soon 
be closed. I will send your deed to Mr. Kelly just as soon as 
he notifies me that Nortli is ready and willing to comply. 

William Neil^ of Columbus, sold last week 3.000 acres of 
his land in Wyandot county, to David Pettit and a Mr. Chaffee 
(brother of the Chaffee that rented your 404-acre farm), for 
$40.00. per acre. You know the farm ; it lies between Little 
Sandusky and the town of Wyandot. "-'= * * Money is close, 
and easilv loaned at 10 per cent. Remember me kindly to Prin- 
cess and the little ones. Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON. 

Lancaster, Ohio, March 16, 1866. 

Dear Wife : — I arrived here at noon yesterday. I see by 
the papers that the steamer Germania arrived at New York last 

1 William Neil was an able, energetic, enterprising man, and left a very 
large estate. He and my father were friends for 35 or 40 years. 

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Sunday, the 13th. I trust that James and family have returned 
ah welL Write and let me know. I want to return home for 
I want to see my dear children, and all the dear little Germans. 
Write often. * * * Your husband, 

T. J. Anderson. 

P. S. — Uncle is not quite as well as usual, and aunt is sorely 
afflicted with dropsy. It is the opinion of all that she can hardly 
live a week. The Methodist minister at Lancaster, Mr. Phil- 
lips, and the presiding elder came yesterday afternoon and ad- 
ministered the sacrament to aunt, and it seemed to revive her 
for a while. They live on Wheeling street in East Lancaster. 
Uncle is about to convey by deed (of gift) his house and lot to 
Mrs. Eliza Jane Kile, late of Hampshire county, Va., and wishes 
me to draw the deed. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 3, 1866. 

Dear Son : — Yours of June 29th received yesterday. In 
answer thereto I inform you that the Henshaw family — descen- 
dants of Captain William Henshaw, live in a large stone house on 
the old Henshaw place, in the south end of Berkeley county, Va., 
on Mill Creek, ih miles from Bunker Hill. Capt. William Hen- 
shaw's wife^ was my grandfather Thomas Anderson's sister. 
Their children, Levi, Hiram, Stephen, and L'riah, all highly re- 
spectable men, were my father's cousins, but none of them are 
now living. Some of Levi's children, I am informed, still re- 
side on the old farm. I saw one of Levi Henshaw's sons, An- 
derson Henshaw, in 1857 in Kansas. The relationship is rather 
remote, but the Anderson blood is still there, and they are said 
to be true Union people. The Henshaw place is 10 or 15 miles 
south of Martinsburg, or Harper's Ferry, as you go south through 
the Shenandoah Valley towards Winchester. Herewith is a let- 
ter of introduction to John Pollock, Esq., attorney at law, of 
Winchester, Virginia. Yours truly, 

T. J. Anderson. 

1 Agnes Anderson, often called Ann. and sometimes Nancy, daughter of 
"William Anderson of the Anderson Bottom. 

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Collector's Office. 
United States Internal Revenue, 
Eighth District, Ohio. 

Marion, Ohio, December 14, 1866. 
James H. Anderson, Esq., 
Mansfield, Ohio: 
Sir : — I fear I shall be under the necessity of collecting 
some taxes by distraint. For that purpose I want you to send me 
one or two warrants, signed by yourself as Collector of the Dis- 
trict, leaving blank spaces for the names of the parties against 
whom the tax is assessed, for me to fill out as I may find it nec- 
essary. I find that Hardy, my predecessor, has turned over to 
me one or two such tax claims, and the time in which to collect 
is so nearly out that I fear I inay become personally liable. Being 
an entire stranger to the internal revenue law, I must not delay. 
I want a warrant or two at all times on hand, duly signed, so> 
that I can proceed when I find it necessary. 
* Yours truly, 

T. J. Anderson, 
Deputy Collector. 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO THOMAS J. ANDERSON. 

Indianapolis, September i6th, 1853. 

My Dear Husband : — Alone in my room this morning, I 
have concluded to write you while the girls^ are engaged in 
household duties. The family are well. Mr. and Mrs. James- 
Yandes called on me last evening, and took us all to Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall, where we saw on exhibition a grand panorama of 
The Victim of Intemperance, from his first temptation to his 
death by suicide in prison, • — - in thirty-two scenes. I wish all the 
world could see it. 

I can't say much about this place, as the city is spread over 
a great territory, and you know I am not a good walker. James 
Yandes called this morning, to know when we would take a 
carriage drive over the city. It looked gloomy and we con- 
cluded to defer it until this afternoon. I have not yet visited 
the Blind Asylum, which I can see from my windows, but it 
apDcars to be a large fine building. Mrs. James H. Godman 

1 Mrs. Anderson was visiting at the home of Major Daniel Yandes 
whose wife was her first cousin. "The girls" referred to were the major's 
daughters. Daniel Yandes was born January 28, 1793, and died June 10, 1878. 
He amassed a fortune. His son Simon, an able lawyer, born January 5, 
1816, and still living, has accumulated a fortune of $850,000; another son, 
James "W., born December 19. 1817, left an estate worth more than $350,000; 
and a third son, George B., born June 7, 1838, is worth over $250,000. It 
has been and is a prosperous, benevolent, charitable family. The fortune of 
Simon will mainly go to churches and charities. His fatlier gave away $160,- 
000, or moi'e. The wife of Daniel Yandes, the mother of his children, was 
Anna Wilson, born in Fayette county. Pa., July 18, 1795, daughter of James 
and Mary Rabb Wilson; and Mary Rabb Wilson, born July 6, 1777, was the 
daughter of Captain Andrew Rabb and Mary Scott, his wife, who were 
married September 1, 1768. Captain Andrew Rabb, of Fayette county. Pa., 
a Revolutionary officer, and a man of great wealtli, died September 5, 1804, 
at Hot Springs, Va., where he was receiving treatment for poison adminis- 
tered by a slave. My mother's mother, Hannah Rabb, born July 1, 17S0, 
was a sister of Mary Rabb. Daniel Yandes was the major of a regiment in 
the last war with Great Britain. 

After the above was written, my dearly esteemed friend and kinsman, 
Simon Yandes, passed from earth. He died about 5 o'clock on tlie morning 
of October 5, 1903, (eighty-seven yeai's and nine months old,) at the home 
of his brother George and his sister Elizabeth, 122 Bast Michigan street, 
Indianapolis. In my opinion no better man ever lived in Indiana. The 
near relatives who survive him are Mrs. Katherine Yandes Fletcher, and 
Mrs. Elizabeth Yandes Robinson, sisters; George B. Yandes, a brother; 
Anna Belle, Mary Y., and Josephine Robinson, nieces; Mrs. Ross Clark, and 
Mrs. Mary Y. Wlieeler, daughters of his brother the late James Yandes; 
Mack A. Carnahan, and Daniel Wheeler, nephews; besides grand-nephews; 
and grand-nieces. 

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of Marion is invited to dine here this afternoon. I am enjoy- 
ing myself as well as any one could so far away from the 
loved ones at home. How I long to see yon all ! I expect to 
arrive at Marion on Monday next, and I want you to meet 
me at the depot, for Mr. Daniel Yandes will he with me. He 
starts east at that time, and will accompany me as far as Marion, 
and will probably stop over a short time to pay us a visit. 

He is considered one of the first business men of this city. 
Give my love to James, Clay, ( )rrel and Annie. On her re- 
turn, mother will have a great many things to tell Annie. The 
daughters of Mr. Yandes are sorr}- Annie did not come with me. 

Your affectionate wife. 

F. S. — Dear James: — After I had my letter in the en- 
velope, cousin Carnahan brought me yours. I am indeed nnich 
obliged. I got well acquainted with Professor Wheeler^ and 
found him an aureeable pentleman. 



VIRGIL D. ANDlvKSOX TO THOMAS J. ANDIiKSON. 

Prairienille,- Ind., July 26, 1854. 

Dear Father :^ — I am in receipt of yours of the 24th in 
wdiich it appears that the cholera is still making havoc among 
yom- citizens. Are its victims confined to the intemperate, or to 
any j-iarticular class? There was a time when the Asiatic cholera 
spent its strength mainlv in the homes of the lowest class, and 
it was supposed to be in conse(|uence of their uncleanlincss. It 
prevailed among people of this class to such an extent that the 
people of other classes thought it would not visit them at all. 
But my observation is that now it attacks all alike, the rich and 
the T)oor, the high and the low. 

Tt seems to be no respecter of persons ; all classes alike fall 
before its victorious march, \\diether this is (\wc to carelessness 

1 This Wheeler may be John Wheeler, who married Mary Ral)b Yandes. 
(born Feb. 27, 1S23), on September S. 1842. Their son. Charles Y. Wheeler, 
born in 1S43. in Greencastle, Ind., and who died at Pittsburg September 5, 
1899, was the inventor and manufacturer of the Wheeler Sterling- Armor- 
Piercing- Projectiles, -which -were in g-reat demand during ovir war with Spain. 

- Dr. Virgil Dunlevy Anderson was practicing medicine in Prairieville. 

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as to cleanliness, or as to diet, or to both, I do not pretend to 
say. To avert "the pestilence that walketh in darkness" it is 
the part of prudence to observe certain precautions, namely : the 
rules that your physician lays down as to diet, as to cleanliness, 
as to the use of disinfectants, as to the necessity of avoiding 
becoming overheated, as to the importance of checking diarrhea 
when the first symptoms appear, etc. 

Have mother remain where she is vmtil the cholera leaves 
Marion. As you are all in more or less danger, I am in a state 
of unceasing anxiety. 

Louis F. Raichley in a letter to me intimates that the doc- 
tors convey the impression that T- R- K- had "a slight sprinkle" 
of snakes, instead of an attack of dysentery. "Very like," for he 
has been violating to a great extent for two years past; but if he 
has not yet seen snakes, they will swarm about him all too 
soon. Write me as often as you can conveniently. 

Yours affectionately, 

V. D. Anderson. 



VIRGIL D. ANDERSON TO THOMAS .1. ANDERSON. 

Prairieville, Inj)., August 2nd, 1854. 

Dear Father : — Yesterday I received yours of the 28th 
and 31st ult- and I was very glad to hear from home. Knowing 
that a fearful, devastating pestilence prevails there, I am con- 
stantly uneasy lest the mail bring the intelligence that near and 
dear friends have been stricken down. I am rejoiced to learn 
that it is gradually abating or disappearing, but it is an insidious 
disease, and may break out afresh in another part of the town 
or county. 

Kenton I consider a poor retreat or refuge from Asiatic 
cholera, for aside from the fact that it is a railroad town, it 
is an unhealthy hole reeking with miasma. It is aljout the last 
place I should have chosen as a place of residence during the 
prevalence of the epidemic. Lyman's relatives^ probably invited 
him and James^ to come to Kenton. 

^ Lyman Spaulding and James H. Anderson. The "relatives" were 
Hon. E. G. Spelman and family, and Gen. J. S. Robinson and family. 

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If you can sell your herd of cattle this fall to advantage, 
I would do so, for they are not the kind of cattle to full-feed 
during the winter. It is very hard to fatten three year old steers, 
yet I have seen some very nice beeves of that age. Keeping 
four year old cattle over, and feeding them corn during the 
winter, is usually profitable, because if well taken care of they 
become fat enough for the New York market, and command 
the highest price. But you understand all this much better 
than I. 

I have some notion of removing from this place to Frank- 
fort. I think it a better field for a physician. How does it strike 
you? Did you get the package from judge Ozias I'ovv'en? My 
health is better than it was. There is very little sickness here ; 
hence not much for a doctor to do. 

Yours afl:ectionately, 

V. D. Anderson. 



CLAY VV, -ANDERSON TO WILLI.VM G. BEATTV. 

Marion, Ohio, October zj, 1855. 

Dear Billy : — "That letter," long e.x])ected. has not yet 
arrived, but I received a little note the other day inquiring why 
it had not l)een answered. I fear "that letter" was never written. 
What do you think ? 

Perhaps you are aware that the people of our glorious state 
held an election a short time since and proved that Columbia's 
true sons still claim ascendance here. The "Sagenichts" here are 
horror-stricken, and you may see them nightly, in mournful 
groups, about the Courthouse which they must soon surrender to 
their more worthy successors. When the result of the election 
became known, the denizens of Deutschland — Richland town- 
ship — • began at once to prepare to return to the Faterland, sup- 
posing that their homes would be confiscated, and their lives 
placed in ieo])ardy, such reports having been circulated among 
them bv the aforesaid "Sagenichts" previous to the election. But 
thev have since come to the conclusion that though the country 
mav be in danger, that they may still remain here in ])eace and 
safety. 

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W e had a grand jollification here last week over the elec- 
tion. Splendid bonfires were built, and a large torchlight pro- 
cession, bearing transparencies was formed, and marched through 
the principal streets to the martial strains of the Marion Sax- 
horn Band, whose soul-stirring music thrilled every patriotic 
heart. About 8 or 9 o'clock p. m. we adjourned to the Rail- 
road Eating house, where the participants, including your hum- 
ble friend, with the fair and fascinating Miss (her name 

doesn't matter) on his arm, sat down to an excellent supper. 
You should have been present for we had a glorious time, and 
all the young bloods were out. 

After supper we had some stirring speeches from Hon. John 
F. Hume, Brother James. ^ L. F. Raichley, Peleg Bunker, Mr. 
Riley and others, and some nubby toasts, which were received 
with shouts of laughter and applause, making the house ring 
with joy and gladness. 

I have heard nothing from beyond the Father of Waters. 
■'' * * Have you 1' Business is generally prosperous here, and 
I am kept very busy in the bank during the da\', but after business 
hours I am at leisure. Don't forget to write. Let me have S(ime- 
thing Spicy occasionally. 

Truly your old friend, 
W. G. Beatty, Esq., Ct.av W. Anderson. 

Culinnbiis, Ohio. 

^I was elected Mayor of Marion in April, 1S55; and prosecuting- attor- 
ney of Marion county in October following-. John F. Hume on the same- 
ticket, was elected a member of the legislature. After his term was out 
he moved in 1858 to St. Louis. In 1859 he married Miss Caroline Carter, an- 
attractive young- lady — long a resident of Marion — who was born in Penn- 
sylvania in 1835. Mr. Hume edited the Missouri Democrat (now the Globe- 
Democrat) from 1861 to 1868, during the exciting war and reconstruction 
periods, and became celebrated in the west as a clear and foi'cible writer. 
He was for several years Railroad Commissioner of Missouri by appoint- 
ment of the Governor. He was a power in politics, and became quite 
wealthy. His home is now in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., but he keeps an office 
in New York City. In Ohio Mr. Hume was an able successful lawyer, in 
St. Louis a distinguished editor, and in New York he is a financier and an 
author of note. Still buoyant and vigorous, he is a great walker, covering 
daily at least 12 miles. His devoted and beloved wife died in 1902. He has 
three bright children: Arthur C. 'practices law in New York City; John H.. 
in Chicago: and Mrs. Alfred M. Frost, "sole daughter of his house and 
heart." resides in Poughkeepsie. Mr. Hume was born in Delaware county,. 
N. Y., in 1831. He was one of my legal friends who attended my wedding. 



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CLAY W. ANDERSON TO WILLIAM O. lilCA'l'rV.' 

Ilurrali for l^'reinont aiul Freedom ! 

Durfee's Exchange Bank, 
South East corner of Main and Center streets. 

Marion, Ohio. June 24, 1856. 

Dear Billy: — Your favor of 17th inst. received; accept 
thanks for enclosures. I am giad to see the fires of patriotism 
burning- so brightly about Cardington, and Mt. Gilead, and that 
vou are bent on having a o-lorious celebration in commemoration 
of Independence Day. It is well to bear in mind the dark dread 
"time that tried men's souls," when our brave forefathers sacri- 
ficed themselves, their fortunes, and their all, rather than liv^ 
with the iron heel of despotism pressing with its blighting power 
upon theuL and to secure for us the dear-bought liberty which 
we enjoy. It l:)ecomcs us, young Americans, to watch over our 
republican institutions, to guard well our sacred rights, which 
were bequeathed to us by the brave heroes of '76. Especially 
in these times, when the slaveocracy of the South, and the de- 
m(on)ocracy of the North, seem combined to strike a death 
blow at our liberties, we should keep the fires of patriotism burn- 
ing brightlv. 

We are going to have a railroad picnic celebration on July 
3rd. We are going to Mt. Victory, where we will meet a large 
partv from Bellefontaine. Over 500 young folks will prol)ably 
assemble in the grove, which is a fine one. and we intend to 
have "a glorious old time." I am one of the individuals who 
intends participating largel}- in the fun and frolic of the day. and 
I very much wish you to be with us and take part in the fes- 
tivities of the occasion. We will get back here in time for you 
to take the train and be in Gilead the same evening. 



1 William Gurley Beatty, brother of Gen. John Beatty. made a good 
record during- the Rebellion, rising to the rank of ma.ior. Having a good 
heart, a generous di-sposition. and a bright, well stored mind, he was for 
many years a popular useful citizen of our state, and the most companionable 
man of my acqviaintance. He was born near Sandusky, Ohio. September 5. 
1837, and died in Pueblo, Colorado, January 31, 1899. His intelligent son, 
William G. Beatty, Jr., was born at Cardin,gton. Ohio. July 2.^. ISXO. He is 
now a bank clerk in Columbus, Ohio. 

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J will try to go over to Gilead on the Fourth, to engage with 
you in the "jollification." Jo. Boyd, Jno. Williams, and Marshall 
Godman^ will perhaps also go. Marshall got home last week. 
He has been spending the year at school, near Chicago. He is 
the same "boy-man," (somewhat improved), of whom we spoke 
in the days of yore. 

Your little western bird, who once "flew to the sunny south/' 
has not yet appeared, and will not probably be here until fall. 
James Harper,- wife and family, of Ft. Madison, arrived in town 
last v/eek. May be they couldn't spare C. What you think? 
John Beatty^ was in town yesterday. He intends making a 
western trip. John^ made an arrangement with him for ex- 
change. We got $2,000 of Johnson House the other day. Give 
my respects to Miss Kate House.^ Our friend Miss Mollie K.^ 
is completely struck. It delights her to talk about your open 
countenance, frank manners and noble appearance. You had bet- 
ter come over and meet her. Try to make us a visit soon. 

Ever yours truly, 

C. W. Anderson. 



CLAY W'. ANDERSON TO WILLIAM G. BEATTY^. 

Marion, Ohio, September 18, 1856. 
Mr. W. G. B catty, Neiv York City: 

Dear Old Friend: — I write to you so soon after my last, 
to give you some account of the grand Republican mass-meeting 
held here last Saturday. It is estimated that there v/ere 20,000 
to 25,000 "friends of liberty and the Union, in council." It was 

1 Gen. J. F. Boyd. Capt. J. B. Williams and Capt. J. M. Godman. 

- During the few years that James Harper resided in Marion, he was 
employed as a civil engineer in making surveys for the Bellefontaine and 
Indiana Railroad. About that time he fell deeply in love with Miss Libbie 
Durfee, the youthful but fascinating daughter of ex- Sheriff Jo. Durfee. They 
were married and moved to Iowa. Capt. Harper was a gallant soldier during 
the Civil War, and lost a hand in battle in Missouri. 

3 Gen. John Beatty. now of Columbus. Ohio. 

■• John B. Dumble. cashier of Durfee's Elxchange Bank of Marion. 

5 Miss House, a member of a prominent Mt. Gilead family, was very 
handsome, married well, and settled in New York City. 

"Miss Mollie K. was the daughter of an eminent clergyman stationed 
in Marion. 

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by far the largest political meeting ever held in this part of the 
state. It was a glorious day for onr side, Ihlly. 

And when al)ont 1 1 o'clock in the morning, processions 
measuring miles in U'ngth were coming from every direction, I 
like many others, being unable longer to restrain luy enthusiasm, 
mounted my mustang colt and rode along the lines to see the 
sights, and enjoy myself in a general way. lUit I might have 
ridden twenty miles before seeing all the people, and the beau- 
tiful banners, and flags, and the inscriptions thereon, to be seen. 
Thirty two of the young ladies of Marion, arrayed in red, white 
and blue, mounted on gaily caparisoned horses, representing the 
different states of the Union, and "bleeding Kansas," made an 
attractive appearance. 

One of these handsome ecjuestriennes, seeing me pass, de- 
manded my services as chevalier, and being mounted, you may 
well suppose I was too gallant, and 1 ma}- say too delighted, to 
think of refusing. I believe you are not acquainted with this 
charming girl, whose name is Darlington, and place of residence 
Newark, Ohio. She is now here visiting at the home of her 
uncle, Mr. Carev A. Darlington, one of our large landed pro- 
prietors, of \'irginia birth or descent. I believe. She is a fine 
girl : I will go my new hat on that. She is a darling as well 
as a Darlington, and I have enjoyed her ac(|uaintance very much. 
T will have more to say of this young lady in my next. 

A beautifully trimmed wagon, full of young ladies — 32 in 
number- — came over from Mt. Gilead. Amid this bouquet of 
rare buds and roses sat, radiant as a princess, \our dear friend 
Miss Katherine House, who told me she had not heard from 
you since you had become a Gothamite. (Of course, she told the 
truth?) What a faithless lover you must be! [ became well 
acquainted with several of these buds, and their society was as 
the balm of Gilead. * * * 

At length a procession of the great nniltitude of hungry 
and thirstv freemen was formed, and marched forthwith to the 
Fair Grounds, where a grand barbecue had been ])repared, of 
roast cattle, sheep, and swine, and man}' other good things, to 
eat and drink. After satisfying the inner man, we listened to 
eloquent speeches by Hon. Cooper K. Watson, Columbus Delano. 

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•and other eminent men. Seven were speaking on the grounds 
at one time at different stands. 

Nothing further from "the Prairie Flower." * * * I am 
about to take a trip to the eastern part of the state. I expect 
to be in Cleveland at the State Fair next week, the 23rd, 24th 
and 25th. Write soon. 

Ever yours truly, 

Clay W. Anderson. 



CLAY W. ANDERSON ^ TO MR. AND MRS. R. N. TAYLOR. 

Marion, Ohio, December i, 1856. 
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Taylor : — We hope you will not dis- 
appoint us, but that you and our other friends in your county, 
(whatever may be the condition of the weather) will attend the 
reception.- We think the married couple will return about Wed- 
nesday. All our Marion party arrived home from Upper San- 
dusky on Friday evening, sound and well, but uncomfortably 
cold. 

Respectfully and truly yours, 

Clay W. Anderson. 



MRS. TtlOMAS J. ANDERSON TO MRS. JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, June 14, 1858. 
Dear ■ Princte: — How do you do? How is little Mary 
Princess? How is Mrs. R. N. Taylor? When did you hear 

1 Clay W. Anderson was born in Marion, Oliio, August 24. 1837, and 
died in the same place of typhoid fever, February 28, 1857. He was a 
teller in one of the Marion banks, was a young- man of good education, 
and possessing a noble character enjoyed the esteem of all. Many resolu- 
tions in his honor, and communications and obituary notices appeared 
in the papers after his death; and Bradford R. Durfee, the principal pro- 
prietor of the bank, a liberal, kind-hearted man, wished to erect an impos- 
ing monument at his own expense, to the memory of his young friend, for 
whom he always expressed the warmest affection and esteem. But my 
parents interposed an objection, and Col. Durfee's generous Intentions were 
not carried out. 

- This refers to the reception at the residence of Judge and Mrs. T. J. 
.Anderson, given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Anderson, who were 
married November 27, 1856, and were then on their wedding Journey. My 
-parents probably thought more of Clay than of any of us. 



Appendix 

from James? Lastly, when do you expect to return? I have 
been dining out this afternoon and just came home. 

Well Princie, I have a surprise for you, and you will scarcely 
believe what I have to tell. The long talked of wedding came 
off this morning, and Jake and Hattie/ the happy pair, left on 
the II o'clock train for Niagara Falls. They are to be absent 
two weeks. It is said a wedding reception is to be given them 
upon their return. "May be so, may be not," as the Indian said. 
I presume the wedding is what Hattie referred to when she said 
she would notify you a week beforehand. She told James the 
day he- started away- that she would be married on the Fourth 
of July. Why this secrecy, this mystery? I am sure no one 
is deeply concerned except the high contracting parties. They 
have our good wishes. 

Tell Mrs. Henry Peters, that Amanda and her husband are 
here. They have a poor afflicted little babe that requires con- 
stant attention. Please write me by return mail if possible. You 
must excuse this trifling scrawl, for my pen is poor, and I am 
writing by candle light, something I never do. * * * 

Your affectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, March i6, 1867. 

Dear Son : — I hope you and your family are very well 
this morning. * * * Do not allow yourself to lose a mo- 
ment's sleep on account of the loss you may think you have 
sustained. Do not waste your time by giving it a thought. 
* * * Apply yourself closely to your law books: it is the 
best thing you can do. Judge Bartram w^as at least seven years 
older than you are now before he was admitted to the bar. You 
are onlv a little rusty. You practiced for years successfully, and 
all you need now is application. Eternal vigilance is the price 
of wealth, and fame, as well as liberty. 



1 Jacob Fribley and Miss Harriet Concklin. 

2 James H. Anderson went to Kansas for a month. 

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If I were you I would let politics drop for ten years. Let 
all little unimportant matters that harass you drop too. Don't 
give your mind to trivial matters, nor lose your self possession. 
Few things so destroy the mind's balance. If you apply your- 
self closely to your profession for ten years, you will then only 
have reached the meridian of life, but will be able to make your- 
self heard and felt. It is a poor plan for young men to make 
politics a profession. They either lose their influence, or form 
injurious habits and are wrecked before life's meridian. And few 
men in civil life before that period, however diligent, ever 
achieve much real distinction. You may perhaps think this is 
nothing but an old woman's talk ; but let me say that I have 
lived a good many years in the world, and I think not alto- 
gether without observation. My love to Frincie, Annie, and the 
little ones. Believing that all things will be overruled by an 
all-wise God for good, I remain, 

Your aiTectionate mother. 



thomas j. anderson to james h. anderson. 

Collector's Office, 

United States Internal Revenue, 

Eighth District of Ohio. 

Marion, Ohio, March 2t^, 1867. 

Dear Son : — What induced you to ask me such cjuestions 
in regard to my exertions to secure the re-election to the U. 
S. Senate of John Sherman? It was out of respect for the man 
and his Republican principles. I spent four or five days at Co- 
lumbus to secure his first election, besides writing to a number 
of my friends in his favor. At his last election I did not go to 
Columbus, but did all I could for him by writing to my friends, 
and in other ways. Of course I bore my own expenses. I 
never received a cent in my life for assisting a friend to secure 
a position. 1 I have long known the Sherman family. I was 



' It was often said that Senator John Sherman spent money freely to 
secure his elections to the U. S. Senate. I wrote to my father on the sub- 
ject, feeling sure that he was too much of a man to accept payment in 
any form for such friendly services as he rendered the Senator. 

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acquainted with the family at Lancaster. Ohio, long before Jolm's 
father became a judi;e of the Supreme Court. 

Vour mother was well ac(|uainted with the family in Lan- 
caster, and considered Mrs. Judge Sherman, (John's mother), 
one of our best and most talented ladies. She visited the old 
lady in Mansfield, and her visits were returned. Hence we al- 
ways had a warm and friendly feeling for all the Shermans. ^ 

1 became well acquainted with Charles T. Sherman, when 
he was a young lawyer and atteutled our courts. 1 was then on 
the bench; 1 was one of the judges here many years; and be- 
fore you can recollect I was a good many years on the bench. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 



MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO .MRS. JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 31, 1867. 

De.xr Princie:^T write in bed this morning: have not 
been well for a week ; am better now but still (juite weak. You 
will !;)e glad to learn that Mary Princess will l)e at home on 
Saturday next. Miss Mary Burns- having decided to return to 
Mansfield on that day. Mrs. James S. Reed with whom Miss 
Ihirns has been sojourning, has had rather a liard time lately, 
her cook having left her liecause she had so much companv. So 
she — Mrs. Reed — has had the cooking to do herself for quite 
a length of time. Miss r)iu-ns would return houie sooner, but 
Mrs. Reed wishes her to remain a while longer that Libbie^ 
her daughter, may enjo\- her societ}-. ^Ir. Reed has decided to 
go north this week with his wife, and make a tour of the lakes, 
to recruit her health and strength. Meanwhile and until thev re- 



1 Charles R.. fathej' of the Senatoi-. and Judge C. T.. and Gen. "W. T. 
Sherman, .settled in Lancaster. O.. in ISIO, practiced law till January 11, 1823. 
when he became a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and remained on the 
bench till his death. June 24. 1829. My .great-grandfather Thomas, my 
grandfather James, and my father Thomas J., settled on a farm in Fair- 
field county. Ohio, April 7, 1806. My great-grandfather died in October. 
1806, but my grandfather and father, knew Judge Charles R. Sherman well 
before he went upon the bench. 

- Miss Mary Burns, daughter of Col. Barney Burns, of Manstteld. Ohio, 
married Dr. (jreorge Mitchell, M. D., of Mansfield. 

•■^ Sarah Elizabeth Reed, married James Delano of New Bedford, Mass. 

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turn, the rest of the family will board out, residing however 
and lodging at home. I am very sorry you had a fall ; hope 
it will not ])rove serious. I am weary and must stop. 

Your aifectionate mother. 



MRS. THOMAS j . ANDKRSON TO AriSS ANNIE E. ANDERSON. 

AIariox, ()iiio, September i8, 1867. 

Dear Annje: — 1 have just received and read your two let- 
ters neither of which is dated. 1 low am I to know when they 
were written? But after all 1 was very glad to get them. 

Now in reference to attending the party to be given by 
Mr. and Mrs. Senator Sherman : go if you have a separate in- 
vitation, not otherwise.^ To accompany James and Princess 
without an invitation, merely as their guest, might excite criti- 
cism. Much depends however on the custom of the place. Of 
course you will be careful that there shall be no ground for 
unkind rema.rks. If you attend, wear your new silk: it becomes 
you. 

I am glad you like Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hedges.'- James 
and Trincess value their friendship, and have a high opinion 
of them. The heat was more oppressive yesterday and the 
<lay before than any of the summer days. The washer-woman 
came to-day, and the clothes are now all nicely dried. I tried 
to engage her to do the ironing to-morrow, l)ut she gave me 
no positive promise. If well enough I want to make ketchup 
to-morrow. T am not able to do much myself. I have been 
putting up a good deal of fruit, and even with the help of the 
girl I find it very hard work. Cora gives me no assistance as 

' I was then residing at Mansfield with my family, and my sister Annie 
was a visitor at my house. I was at that time U. S. Collector of internal 
revenue, and disbursing agent, for the Eighth Congressional District of 
Ohio, 

=Henry C, Hedges, former law partner of Senator John Slierman, was 
born in Mansfield, C, December 28, 1831, Lucretia Zimmerman, his wife, was 
born in Mansfield, February 24, 1837. They were married December 24, 1856. 
Mrs, Hedges and my wife attended the O, W, F, Seminary at Delaware, 
at the same time. When I lived in Mansfield in 1866-67, Mr, Hedges was 
a man of high standing, and his wife was considered one of the loveliest and 
handsomest ladies in that city. 

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•she leaves at 7 every morning to practice. She afterwards goes 
to school Her studies will push her hard from this 011 ; so we 
Avill miss her this winter very much. 

Cora wishes me to ask Alary to kindly call on Mrs. Bellona 
Havens/ and get the silk and velvet scraps she promised her. 
Cora wishes you to fetch these scraps for her quilt home with 
you. She wishes you also to bring the piece of music along 
she loaned Miss Lizzie Patterson, that is, if she is through with 
it. I suppose Fjiday week will bring you home as 1 under- 
stand the wedding^ is to be Thursday week. H it should take 
place on Wednesday as you think it may, then come the next 
day. Did Mrs. C. K. Watson"' arrive? 1 am sorry James it not 
at home. Love to all. 

Your affectionate mother. 

1 A poetess of talent, formerly resided in Marion, daughter of William 
Brown, civil engineer. 

- The marriage of Dr. Mitchell and Miss Burns. 

■' Mrs. Caroline Watson, wife of Hon. Cooper K. Watson, was tlie mother 
of Mrs. Eleanor Lovelace Watson I..oomis, grandmother of Mr. John C. 
Loomis and sister Mary, and aunt of Mrs. James H. Anderson. Mrs. Wat- 
son died August 3, 1SS4. Mrs. Watson's mother was Eleanor Lovelace, whose 
parents belonged to Daniel Boone's Colony in Kentucky, whither they emi- 
grated from Maryland it is said, about the year ITT."?. During a bloody 
Indian incursion about 1773 or 1774, Lovelace, the father of Eleanor, and 
some of his children were massacred. His wife, an infant, and two little 
girls, Susan and Eleanor, were taken captives by the savages. While cross- 
ing the Ohio river with the retreating Indians the mother Mrs. Lovelace, 
and her infant child were drowned; but Susan and Eleanor were car- 
ried through the wilderness of Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan, to Detroit, 
where they were ransomed by the commandant of the British gai-rison. 

They were reared in good French families, and about 1784 at the age 
of 16. Eleanor married a Detroit merchant and Indian trader, named Nathan 
Williams, who was born and raised in Thompson, Conn. Susan married 
a Mr. Allen and moved across the Detroit river to Sandwich, Canada. 
Nathan Williams — a Freemason — died in 1797 or '98, leaving a widow, 
six daughters, and a son John W.. and considerable property. As he had 
a sister, a Mrs. Esther Leavens, and other relatives in Marietta, Ohio, 
his widow and children, except John and a daughter Sarah, wife of Capt. 
Greaton of the army, decided in 1800 to remove to that place. At Marietta, 
Eleanor Lovelace Williams, the widow, was married July 20, 1802, by Rev. 
Daniel Story to Dr. Silas Durkee, (or Durgee), a surgeon in the U. S. 
army, stationed at a post nearby. One of their children, Caroline Durkee, 
became the wife of Judge C. K. Watson. Elizabeth, daughter of Nathan 
and Eleanor Lovelace Williams, was united in marriage to Abner Bent, 
January 18, 1802, at Marietta. Their daughter Sarah Bent, married David 
Miller; and Princess A., daughter of David and S'arali Miller, married James 
H. Anderson. 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANUIiRSON 'I U MRS. jAMES 11. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, July 24, 1868. 

Dear Frincie : — Yours was duly received and should have 
heen answered sooner. I hope you are feeling better now. It 
is so oppressively warm no one can really feel well. I am low in 
spirits myself, and low in strength ; 1 have no endurance. The 
infirmities of age have shorn me of my strength. Nor have 
you Princie much physical strength. lUit you have a good mind; 
1 have often admired your executive ability. 

Four immortal beings, sweet little cherubs, are placed under 
your care, whose physical intellectual and moral training, devolves 
almost entirely on the mother. I feel now how . poorly I was 
calculated to rear and train my children. I try to excuse my- 
self because my duties were so many and so exacting. T had 
but little time to devote to more than their physical wants. With 
my present experience, if I had my life to live again, I would 
sink every other consideration and apply myself to their in- 
tellectual, moral, and religious welfare, not forgetting or neg- 
lecting the rules of health which science has indorsed. 

I honor you for your industry Frincie, but situate as you 
are, above want, and in delicate health, I see no necessity of your 
sewing, etc. as you do. I would buy a sewing machine, and let 
vour hired people learn to use it. This is wdiat Mrs. Kate 
Godmaii has done. Her father, Mr. Josiah S. Copeland,^ makes 
his home at her house, making quite a family. Can't you make 
us a visit soon, bringing the children, Mary, James, Charles, 
and Amelie? Love to all. Your affectionate mother. 

F. S. — I had nearly forgotten to tell you that our black- 
berries are getting ripe. If you conclude to visit us let me know 
on Monday and I will notify you what day to come, as I should 
like you all to be here when they are at their best. 

^ Hon. J. S. Copeland, a man of wealth and prominence, long- lived a 
retired life in a fine stone mansion on the edge of Marion. His only 
daughter Kate L,., born October 30, 1830, was Henry C. Godman's wife. His 
five sons became business men of more or less consequence. Guild, born 
July 4, 1821; Percy, born October 14, 1824; Elijah, born March 25. 1833; 
and Arthur, born December 22, 1841, acquired wealth as bankers. Howard, 
born May 13. 1828. preferring a less strenuous life, gave himself to music; 
but Howai-d's son George, a member of the Marion bar. is a good lawyer, 
and a man who moves things. He was born in Marion in 1860. of New- 
England and Virginia ancestry. 

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Amelie Ellen Anderson. 



Appendix 

-MRS. THOMAS J. AXDI'.KSON '1 ]MRS. jAMKS II. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, August 2, 1868. 

Dka.r Prixcje:--[ wrote you last Friday a week partic- 
ularly requestiug an answer on Monday. As no answer came 
I have concluded that you did not get my letter or that you 
are sick. I hope to hear from you soon. 

Mr. Anderson is in Wyandot county, superintending im- 
provements and looking after the live stock on the farms. Sick- 
ness has admonished me that I am going down the steep de- 
clivity of time at a very rapid pace. Life at best is a very 
very brief period. Mine of course is nearly spent. * * * If 
I find any one going to Mansfield I will send for Mary. 

Mrs. Harvey Clark has kindly been permitting us to read 
the letters of her daughter Mrs. Ollie Phillips, and I find them 
very interesting. Ollie has visited as a tourist all the ])laces of 
note in London : the Houses of Parliament ; the renal palaces ; 
the public parks. ])romenades, and squares; the Inns of Court; 
the Dank of England, and other pul)lic buildings; St. Paul's 
Cathedral, and other fine churches; the Pritish Museum; the 
Tower of London ; Westminster Abbey ; the National and other 
picture galleries ; the Roval Academy of APisic ; the mansions 
of the nobility ; the Nelson and other monuments ; the Zoological 
gardens ; the hospitals ; and the great markets. She saw the 
chair occupied by the Sovereign in opening Parliament. She 
probably only saw in London what nearly all intelligent, refined, 
Amei ican tourists might see. She writes to no one but her father 
and mother, her time is so occupied. "T wish," she writes, "to 
make the most of this rare opportunity."" Her last letter was 
dated July 14th. She and Mr. Phillips^ were then soon to start 
for Paris. They are now no doubt in France. It v/ill be quite 
a treat for you to talk with Ollie when she returns as you have 
both been over so much of the same groimd. 

Yours aft'ectionatelv. 



Prof. Philip Pliillips, and liis talented wife. Olive M. Clark. 



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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

jMarion, Ohio, January i, 1870. 

Dear Son : — A new year is ushered in. What have we ac- 
complished in the last? Are we wiser and l)etter in our pro- 
portion to our experiences? I can't say much for myself, but 
I trust that you are. 

my dear, how much you have accomplished ; you don't 
know how much comfort I have had since you wrote me. 
* * * Do not think I overrate your ability to wield an in- 
fluence in community. * * * By strict attention to business 
you will be astonished at your own prosperity and influence. 

We read your communication in the Cincinnati Com- 
mercial of the 23d ult., and 1 must acknowledge I felt a pride 
in being- "'• * * It Vv'as well written, and such a noble dis- 
interested vindication of one whom you considered wrongfully 
spoken against. And then your position — declaring you were 
taking no part in politics — will be of infinite advantage to you. 
It will tend to keep idlers and hangers-on at a distance. They 
can.'t very well call on you now for money to help carry elec- 
tions, and people of all parties will have more confidence in 
you as a business man. In ten years from now if you should 
want to take part in politics you will be better prepared to do so 
satisfactorily to yourself. We marked your letter and sent the 
paper containing it to Annie. We received a letter from her yes- 
terday. She wonders why you don't write. 

1 am glad Amelie^ is recovering. Dear little child. What 
a terrible affliction, had she died. 1 have a letter from Princie 
about those little presents : she sends many thanks. I am glad 
they were acceptable. 

lanuarv 2. Sabbath morning. The snovv^ is several inches 
deep, and it is still snowing, so I cannot go to church. I am 
sorry for I deem it a very high privilege. That and reading- 
the Scriptures are sources of great comfort and consolation. I 
wish you would make a practice of reading the Holy Scriptures, 
if only a small portion, every day. Read the Psalms and Pro- 

1 Amelie Ellen Anderson, daug-hter of James H. and Princess A. Ander- 
son, was born in Hamburg. Germany, October 15, 1865, and died in Upper 
Sandusky. Ohio, April 3, 1873, of malig-nant scarlet fever. 

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verbs in the Old Testament : every portion of the New Testa- 
ment will interest yon. Try it my dear ; it is a wonderful 
calmer to a harassed and troubled spirit. We are commanded 
to search the scriptures. It is a duly we cannot safely disre- 
gard : and besides all great men, infidels as well as christians 
read the scriptures. Those who do not, being ignorant, aijpear 
to disadvantage. Love to all. Alay God have you and yours in 
His holy keeping. 

Vour atTectionate mother. 

P. S. — I forgot to sav in its proper ])lace that I presume 
Sherman and Schenck will be somewhat annoyed at the publi- 
cation of Corwin's letter,^ and possibly ofTended, but as it can't 
be helped, and as they know there is more truth than poetry 
in it they will have to take it as a joke and let it pass. 



THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. AXDF.RSON. 

My DEAR Son — I had forgotten that you had any chattel 
tax to pay in Marion county, and then it occurred to me that 
you had listed some of your cattle- in Saltrock township, that 
were on your Deal Farm. So on the 30th ult. I called at the 
office of the county treasurer, and paid on cattle valued at 
$2,060, the sum of $11.15, it l)emg the l)eceml)er half of your 
chattel tax, and gave a check on Marion Deposit Bank for the 
amount. We are all as well as usual. Love to all. 

Your father, 

T. J. Anderson. 

1 This postscript refers to a letter dated September 5, 1865. received 
by me from Hon. Thomas Corwin, in which he alludes to the efforts Hon. 
John Sherman, and Gen. Robert C. Sohrnck were making to secure an 
election to the U. S. Senate. 

- For years after returning from Germany I l^cjit large flor-k.s of .sheep 
and herds of cattle, besides other stock. 

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MRS. THOMAS J. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Marion, Ohio, February 21, 1870. 

Dear Son : — The mig-hty deed is done at last. Princie's 
furs have been sent east to the manufacturer. * * * 

I have been very unwell for several weeks, and quite weak. 
I did not like to send for a physician, thinking I would soon 
get l)etter, but continued to run down although I did everything 
I could think of. Dr. T. B. Fisher is now treating me. I am 
taking quinine, wine and iron. I was fairly well during Decem- 
ber an.d the first week in January. Then I should have been so 
happy to have had a visit from you all ; l)ut now I am too in- 
firm to make you comfortable and shall not ask you to come till 
I get stronger. 

I have not said a word to Annie aliout the state of my health, 
for she is so far from home it would nnl}- make her unhappy, 
and I do not wish her to return alone. 1 hope I will soon l)egin 
to improve. Annie writes me that tlie weather in Missouri is 
warm and pleasant, and that a fire to sit by is hardly neces- 
sarv. She is delighted with the climate and the people, and on 
the first of March will go to Kansas City to visit Mrs. J. W. 
Bushong.^ Mrs Marshall Godman is also invited, and Annie 
thinks they will have a nice time. Mrs. B. sent Annie her 
number, but she will also meet her at the depot. Well 1 am 
tired, and must quit writing. Cora is attending school. T am 
better to-day, than I have been for a week. Love to all. 

Your aft'ectionate mother. - 



THOMAS j. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANDERSON. 

Pleasant Hill, Mo., January 5, 1871. 
Mv Son : — * * * I wish to travel around some while 
here, and iti the si)ring 1 intend to return home. I expect to 



^ Mrs. Bushong wa.s a daughter of William Williams, a prominent citi- 
zen of Delaware county, Ohio, a cousin and very dear friend of my father. 
Her husband, a graduate of the O. W. University, was a Methodist clergy- 
man, and stationed In 1870 in Kansas City. 

2 My mother died of what was called Bright's Disease. May 17. 1S70. 
The foregoing letter was probably the last she ever wrote to me. 

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visit yon this spring", and spend some time with yon. We have 
only had one snow storm this winter. That was shortly before 
Christmas, wdien it fell to the tlepth of ahont two inches. Nor 
has it rained here since Sei)tember. It is liowever beantifnl 
winter weather. 

Mv son, I feel qnite lonesome here most of the time ; and 
I have had one of those severe attacks in my stomach, which 
lasted longer than nsnal. I am not fairly over it yet. I was 
attacked the Friday before New Year's day. I hope yon are all 
well. Love to Princess, and the dear children. Annie and Cora 
are well, and send love to all yonr dear family, and especially 
to yonrself. Yonr father, 

T. y. AXDERSON.^ 



miss .\xxi.e e. anderson to j.vmes h. anderson. 

Pleasant IIiel, AIo. 
Tnesday morning, Jannary 24, 1871. 

Dear I'rother : — This morning we were visited with a ter- 
rible calamity; father's right side is entirely j^aralyzed. It hap- 
pened this morning jnst after he got np : the fire was made, and 
he was sitting by the stove. After I came down, he said he be- 
lieved his right side v.-as paralyzed. I took bis hand and rnbbed 
it. He conld feel me doing so, and conld then talk as well as 
nsnai. P>nt he soon got so he talked with difficnlty, and now 
we can hardh' understand him. He is anxious 1 should write 
vou just how he is. He says he doesn't think he will ever re- 
cover, and I am very much afraid he will not. He has not 
been well for four or five weeks. 

He would like so nuich to see you, but still does not tell me 
to ask \ou to come. He cries whenever he s])eaks of you ; says 
he will never see you again. I sent for a doctor at once,- who 
found father bel]iless, and assisted us in putting him t(^ bed. We 
all think he is a very sick man, and are fearful be will nc\er 
get v.-ell. If vou can do so, ^•ou bad better come at once. I 
cannot write more now. Your sister, 

A X x 1 E. 



1 The above I tielieve is the last letter I ever received from, my father. 

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MISS ANN11-: E. ANDERSON TO JAMES 11. ANDERSON. 

Pleasant Hill, Mo., January 25, 1871. 

Dear James — Father is much worse tliis morning. The 
doctor said I should tell you he had very little hopes of his get- 
ting well. 1 know he will not live. O, how ill and wretched 
he looks! He does not apparently suffer any pain, but is very 
drowsy — sleeps all the time. His death at any moment would 
not surprise me. If he should die I will notify you by telegraph 
at once. I do wish you were here, but if here you could do na 
good. He might recognize you, but I think it doubtful. When 
aroused, it is momentary, and he relapses into sleep. But he 
may recover: we cannot tell. I thought it liest to tell you all 
in this letter, that you may better understand any message 
I may send. Your sister, 

Annie. 



• miss ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Pleasant Hill, Mo., evening, January 25, 1871. 

Dear James: — Father is sinking: he cannot last long. I 
will of course forward the remains to MarioiL You will have 
to attend to everything. The doctor thinks T will have to send 
the dispatch, (referred to in my letter this morning,) to-morrow. 
If so, it will start before you get this letter. 

Your sister, 

Annie. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES LI. ANDERSON. 

Pleasant FIill, Mo., January 27, 187 1. 

Dear James: — We are now all alone. * * * Mr. Fahs,. 
whom I have not seen for some time, will soon arrive. * * * 
Father's remains were forwarded l)y express to Marion, at the 
time and by the route mentioned in mv dispatch of yesterday 
to }(m. () but father suffered toward the last: his sufferings- 
were painful to behold. He died at 5 minutes after 1 1 o'clock. 

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Wednesday nioht, Jannary 25th, 1871. He looked quite natural' 
in death, when we sent him home for burial. Father wanted so 
much to see you. He intended retnrning- home in the spring", 
and anticipated great enjoyment. Poor man! How different the 
jonrney from the one he fondly contemplated. Rut then he is 
better off, happier far. Eight months and eight days after dear 
mother passed away, father joined her in the Land of Light. 

I shall not soon forget the respect and kindness shown us 
by the Masons of this place, nor the wa\' the\' tried to do honor 
to father's memory. They were more than kind. Three or four 
were here at the house all the time after he was stricken. Among 
other things they put a beautiful silver plate.. Masonic plate, on the 
coffin. When you open the box that encloses the coffin you will 
see all. Finally the Masons came as a Lodge^ to the house, and 
accom]5anied the funeral procession to the depot. 

1 Note — On the 4th clay of February, 1S71, Live Oak Lodge No. 12S, A. F. 
and A. M., at Pleasant Hill, Mo., on the occasion of the death of Judge 
Thomas J. Anderson, as "a tribute of respect," adopted highly compli- 
mentary and eulogistic resolutions touching the deceased, which were ordered 
spread on the records of the Lodge, and published in the city papers, and 
copies were ordered sent to Marion Lodge No. 70, A. F. and A. M., and 
to the children of the deceased. 

Response of the Marion Lodge: 

"Masonic Hall, Marion, Ohio, March 31, 1871. 
A. M. 8tranis. Thro. Lcland, and C. L. Maijo. Committer: 

Gentlemen: — At a regular communication of Marion Lodge No. 70, 
A. F. <fe A. M., held this evening, your "tribute of respect" to tlie memory 
of Bro. T. J. Anderson, deceased, late an lionored member of this Lodge, 
was read, ordered spread on the Lodge records, and referred to the under- 
signed committee for acknowledgment. We give expression to the wishes 
and feelings of our lodge when we thank you for the fraternal care which 
you have extended to the surviving members of our late brotlier's family, 
and for your triljute of respect to the deceased. 

Bro. T. J. Anderson, was an early settler in this place, having moved 
into the county in 1825, shortly after its purchase from the Indians. The 
first religious organization here — the Methodist — was made with his active 
assistance. Bro. Anderson was initiated March 22, 1850; passed June 20; 
raised July 19; and he was an active and exemplary member of our order 
and of society. 

Our committee beg leave respectfully to suggest that you cause a. copy 
of this acknowledgment to be published, and sent to the surviving chil- 
dren of our late brother, and that it be spread upon your Lodge records. 
Fraternally and respectfully yours, 

J. S. Reed. 

P. Beerbower, 

R. Wilson, 

('(Dinnillrr. 

Witness my hand and seal of the I^odge. this lalst day of Marcli. A. D. 
1S71. Dallas Day, Scerclari/." 

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You would hardly believe me if I were to tell you of the 
attention and kindness shown us by the people here. It was really 
wonderful, and we such strangers ! We can never, never for- 
get it. The people of Marion were no doubt very much shocked. 
I suppose of course you sent word to Uncle John Anderson, and 
other relatives and friends. I hope the Masons of Marion will 
take charge of the interment. Write me all about the funeral. 
Will send }'ou a list of the expenses as soon as the bills are sent 
in. The coffin was $100.00. I do not know what the bills will 
be for carriages to the depot. Cora is well. Love to all. 

Your sister, 

Annie. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Pleasant Hill. Mo., July 24, 1871. 

Dear James: — -I received yours of the 13th in due time, 
and was very glad to hear from you. Cora received a letter from 

Mary the same day. I do not need the money on "s note, 

but I do on mine. * * * 

T shall have to ask you for $200 — and when the note is 
paid, October ist, pay yourself, and remit me the lialance. * * * 

The day set for our marriage is the 6th of September. If 
you are going to Omaha, be sure to reach this place, cii route, at 
or before that time, so as to be present. If you can I should 
be very glad. Mr. Fahs sends his respects, and says that while 
Forest City is not much of a town, he can show you a good 
growing business and a beautiful country. 

You want to know what kind of presents I would like. Any 
things that you see fit to send will be acceptable, for I am quite 
sure they will be appropriate and pretty. I shall be married in 
* * * a suitable gown at this particular time. I am just now 
having the purple silk made up. which you brought me from 
Germany. Three or four more new dresses will complete my 
wardrobe. Write often. 

Your sister. 

Annie 

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Annie E. Anderson. 

(MrF. William F. Fahs.) 



Appendix 

MISS ANNIE ]•:. ANDERSON TO JAMES II. ANUER.iOX. 

Pleasant Hill, AIo., Moiulay, Jul\- 31, 1871. 

Dear James: — 1 received your letter of the 27th inst. this 
morning. Was very glad to get it, and thank you more than 
words can tell for saying that you will cash my note. 1 do not 
know of course just hov.- nmcli money 1 will need, but if von can 
spare the whole amount, I shall be thankful. You will have to 
wait two months till you get your money back from Air. John 
R. (iarberson. I enclose the note herewith, and hope it will not 
get lost. 

Put whatever words you think most appropriate on father's 
tombstone. He was born April 2, 1801, in Hampshire countv, 
Va., and died (as you know) January 25th, 1871, in Pleasant 
Hill, Mo. I do not remember the inscription on mother's tomb- 
stone, but I would have father's similar to mother's. Do not fail 
to attend my wedding. I want to see you all very much. Love 
to all. 

Your sister, 

• Annie. 

P. S. — I would incjuire fully before moving to Omaha, or 
investing in ( )maha j^roperty, for out here, Omaha hasn't a good 
name. A. 



MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Pleasant Hill, Mo., August 10, 1871. 

De.\r James: — Your kind letter of the 3d inst., enclosing draft 
was received yesterday. * * * I am sorr}- you are not feeling 
well. The weather here is oppressive on account of the heat ; 
we actually suffer. T tell you we miss our old Clarion home, so 
cool in summer and warm in winter. George and Louisa Tillot- 
son^ are now making us a visit. I wish you could visit us. 
* * * Love to all. A\>ite to me soon. 

Your affectionate sister, 

Annie. 

] Cousins of Miss Annie E. Anderson. 

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MISS ANNIE E. ANDERSON TO JAMES H. ANDERSON. 

Pleasant Hill, Mo., August 27th, 1871. 

Dear James: — Yesterday I received your two letters of the 
22d and 23d inst. Was very glad to get them, and happy to learn 
that vou had spent such a pleasant week at Middle Bass Island. 
Meeting acquaintances from the Old World, must have revived 
pleasant recollections, and proved quite cnjoyahle. I sent your 
letters with one of my own to Mr. Fahs. I hope you can be 
here on the 6th. * * * j suppose ere this you will have 
received our wedding cards. Your wedding presents just came; 
thev are lovely; many, many thanks. 

Cora will start home the day after our marriage. Will stop 
in St. Louis a few days with Mrs. Field, and the Godmans ; will 
go thence to Indianapolis, where she will spend a few days with 
Mrs. Fletcher. 1 who has kindly invited her to do so. She will 
then go to Marion, and there notify you what day to send your 
buggy to take her to your house. I trust she will be able to 
make the very pleasant visit she fondly anticipates. She is very 
anxious to sefe you all. She will remain in Ohio four weeks, and 
then return, and resume her work. Her class in music is now 
large, and she is well paid. We have made many friends here. 
Cora will spend Christmas with me. Mr. Fahs wishes her to quit 
teaching and live with us, but she loves music, and her pupils, 
and will forsake neither. When will you start west, and what 
(lav mav I expect vou? Love to all; kiss baby- for me. 

Your sister, 

Annie. 



• A daughter of the late Major Daniel Yandes. of Indianapolis, and a 
sister of Mr. Simon Yandes. one of the prominent men of that city. 

- The baby was Alice Florence Anderson, daughter of James H. and 
Princess A. Anderson, who was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, June 4. 1871, 
and died of pneumonia, at 5 o'clock A. M., Thursday, January 24, 1895, at 
the St. Vincent Sanitarium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she was sojourn- 
ing with her mother and brother, Lieut. James T. Ander.son, U. S. A., both 
of whom were invalids. 

Though an invalid from infancy, and never strong. .Mice was a scholar, 
a graceful writer, a wit, and was passionately fond of sketching and paint- 
ing, in which she excelled. She left sketches and portraits that show great 
.artistic talent. 



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Alice PXorence Anderson. 



BIOCxRAPHICAL SKETCH 

James House Anderson, son of Judge Thomas Jefferson and Nancy 
Dunlevy Anderson, was born in Marion, March 16, 1833. He was edu- 
cated in the district and select schools of the town, in tlie Marion Acad- 
emy, and at the Ohio Wesleyan University. He studied law under Ozias 
Bowen, (subsequently Supreme Judge), and Bradford R. Durfec, gradu- 
ated from the law department of the Cincinnati Colkee in the spring if 
1854, receiving the degree of LL.B., and iiumediatciy uegan the practice 
of his profession in his native place. He was a delegate to the first Re- 
publican State Convention in Ohio, held July 13, 185-j, in Columbus. Iii 
April, 1855, he was elected mayor of Marion, and in the October follow- 
ing, prosecuting attorney of the county. In the trial of causes he was 
indefatigable, at times eloquent, and usually successfid. 

The case of most iiuportance tried by him as Prosecuting Attorney, 
was The State of Ohio versus Edward Robbins. The defendant was in- 
dicted at the November term, 1857, for murdering Nancy Holly, by ad- 
ministering poison, was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung. 
The case was taken to the Supreme Court, the judgment reversed, and 
the cause remanded to tire Marion Common Pleas. At the second trial, 
Robbins was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sent to 
the Ohio Penitentiary for life. It has long been known as "a leading 
criminal case." It takes up 66 pages of Vol. VIII, of the Ohio State 
Reports, wherein the indictment, signed "James H. Anderson. Prosecut- 
ing Attorney," is set out at length. Like many other young lawyers Mr. 
Anderson made stump speeches for his party during political campaigns, 
and occasionally accepted invitations to address lyceums and other asso- 
ciations. 

On November 21. 1856, he was united in marriage to Miss Princess 
A. Miller, the youngest daughter of the late David Miller, a pioneer of 
prominence in Marion and Wyandot Counties, whose nephew Rear Ad- 
miral Joseph N. Miller, U. S. N., (born in Springfield, O.), represented 
tire U. S. Navy, by appointment of the President at the Queen's Jubilee 
in London in 1897. Mrs. James H. Anderson is a granddaughter of the 
late Abner Bent, of Marion County, and a great-granddaughter of Colonel 
Silas Bent, of the Revolution, a member of the Ohio Company, who with 
General Rufus Putnam, and other Revolutionary officers settled Ohio in 
1788. Colonel Bent was a member of the historic Masonic Lodge of the 
Revolution, and his monument is at Belpre, Ohio. (The Bent Coat-of- 
Arms is given herein). In 1859, Mr. Anderson was a candidate for the 
State Senate, in the district composed of Marion, Logan, Union and 
Hardin counties, and came within one vote of receiving the nomination. 
A nomination was "equivalent to an election." 

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In March, 18(il. he was appointed hy President Lincohi. United 
States Consnl at Hanihnrg. one of the most ini])ortant commercial cities- 
in Europe, and with his family at once emharked for the scene of his 
duties. Ordinarily this consulate is a busy one. but the great Civil War 
in America trebl'ed the responsibilities and difficultes of the position. 
Hamburg early became a rendezvous for privateers, and blockade-run- 
ners, where they received their outfit and supplies, and the necessary 
espionage of these vessels, their lawdess owners, and officers, demanded 
sleepless vigilance. That Consul Anderson performed his arduous duties 
most efficiently, is evidenced by the number of letters of commendation 
received by him from the secretary of state, and other distinguished pub- 
lic functionaries. Under date of December 10th, 18G1, Secretary Seward 
writes : "Your vigilance in regard to the movements of the insurgents 
for the purchasing and shipping of arms and other equipments at Ham- 
burg, js highly appreciated." Again under date of August 21st, 186'2, 
Secretary Seward writes : "The Department this morning has been in- 
formed by the secretary of the navy, that the steamer Columbia, concern- 
ing which you gave early and important information to this Department, 
which was promptly communicated to the Navy Department, has been 
captured." This elegant vessel, including her cargo of arms and other 
munitions, was of great value." 

Mr. Anderson was instrumental, it was said, in sinking a lighter, 
at Hamburg, that was conveying batteries, carriages, etc., etc., to the 
steamer in the service of the Confederate government called the Bahama, 
and of thwarting the Confederate agents in other respects. Thereupon 
Secretary Seward (18G2) wrote Mr. Anderson: "I have transmitted to 
you under another envelope, the National Intelligencer, in which is 
printed a letter from Mr. Huse, one of the rebel agents in Europe, in 
which he confesses that his plans have been thwarted by the activity of 
yourself, and the minister of the United States in London. The Depart- 
ment takes pleasure in acknowledging the service thus rendered to your 
country." (See dispatch, dated Liverpool, April 1, 18(32, of Caleb Huse, 
Captain of Artillery, C. S. A., to War Department, C. S. A., captured by 
our Navy) . 

Hon. Carl Schnrz, LInited States Minister at Madrid, writing to Mr. 
Anderson from Washington, March 1st, 18(i2, detailing an interview with 
the secretary of state, says: "I must not forget to mention that Seward 
spoke very highly of you and your services." 

General H. S. Sanford, United States Minister at Brussels, (who 
had just returned from a visit to Washington), writing from Brussels 
August 24th. 18(i2, says : "I was glad to learn at the Department of 
State, that your activity in following up rebel enter[)rises in your port 
was appreciated. You have probably already received a dispatch com- 
mendatory of your zeal, which was to have been addressed to you about 
the time of my departure, the end of last month. I hope you are well, 
and that the work of detecting' rebel enlejprises goes l)rayely on. I was, 

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just fourteen days in tlic United States, having been detained long-cr than 
I contemplated in Soutli Anieriea." In l.S(i8, the secretary nl" slate, writes: 
"The Department is gratified to percei\'e the evidences of your \igihmce 
and devoted loyahy." 

Consul Anderson's diplomatic duties were even more perplexing than 
his consular. Naturalized American citizens were often arrested in Ham- 
burg for non-performance of miHtary dut\' in the fatherland — usually for 
service alleged to be due Prussia or one of the smaller (ierman States. 
The persons thus apprehended invariably aiipealed to the consul for pro- 
tection, and he as invariably, by tact, good judgmvul. and jjcrsistence se- 
cured their release. In 1863, Hon. G. J. Abbot, of the State Department, 
writes: "Your assiduous labors in the Consulate are known and ap- 
preciated here." 

While in Hamburg, Mr. Anderson was notified by letter from the 
New York office, that the had been elected a member of the American 
Geographical and Statistical Society. 

Subsequently he was elected a corresponding member of the Ameri- 
can Institute, and received the following notification : 

"American Institute, New York, May S. 1SG;3. 
J. H. Anderson, Esq.: 

Dear Sir: — I take great pleasure in informing you tliat at a meeting 
of the American Institute of the city of New York, lield la.st evening, you 
were unanimously elected a corresponding member tliereof. The American 
Institute was chartered in 1829, for the purpose of encouraging and pro- 
moting domestic industry in this State, and tlie United States, in agricul- 
ture, commerce, manufactures, and tlie arts. 

Yours very respectfully. 

John W. Chambers, 

Act. Rcc. Sfc'y." 

On the 30th of May, 18()3, Mr. Chambers, writes: "The .American 
Institute has appointed you a delegate to represent the association at tlie 
Great International Agricultural Exhibition at Hamburg, and the cre- 
dentials of your appointment will be handed you by Mr. Wennberg, a 
member of the Institute." On the 29th of December, 1802, Mr. Secretary 
Seward notified Mr. Anderson that his dispatch relating to the Great 
Exhibition had been pu])lish.ed in the National Intelligencer, for general 
information. It was a carefully pre])ared paper, and was soon followed 
by another, which the State Department authorized tlie same journal to 
publish. 

On the '20th of March, 18(13, the Secretary of the Hamburg Interna- 
tional Exhibition, wrote: "It is my pleasant duty to thank you most 
sincerely for the able manner in which you have called the attention of 
your government and countrymen to what it is hoped will be an occa- 
sion of bringing from your country the wonderful products of your agri- 
cultural and mechanical skill." 'i']:-_ imn:edi".;e result of Mr. Anderson's 
widely published dispatches on the subject of the Great International 
Exhibition, at Hamburg in 18r):'>, was a message to Congress from Presi- 

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dent Lincoln, an appropriation by Congress, the appointment of a com- 
missioner by President Lincoln — Governor Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana, 
similar action by many of the States, as well as by many of onr agri- 
cultural societies, and a successful exhibition by our citizens of agricul- 
tural products, implements, machinery, live stock, etc. It is needless to 
quote at greater length from dispatches and letters in recognition and 
approval of Mr. Anderson's services. 

That his efforts to stimulate emigration, to give to the people of 
Europe just views of our resources, finances, etc., to secure generou.^ 
contributions in 18(j4 for our sick and wounded soldiers, and in I8G0 
for our helpless freedmen, as well as his labors in many other important 
directions not heretofore referred to, were eminently successful, testi- 
monials from the secretary of state, and others of the highest character — 
women as well as men — clearly establish. Few American representatives 
abroad have ever served their country with more diligence or fidelity; 
and it is probably true that two-thirds of his time was employed in the 
discharge of extraordinary duties that do not occur in a period of pro- 
found peace. 

Mr. Anderson finally became weary of official life, and longing for 

his native land, sent in his resignation. This is the answer that came to 

him : 

"Department of State, Washington, Aug. 6, 1S66. 

J. H. Anderson, Esq. : 
t 
Sir: — Your communication of July 28th tendering- your resignation of 

your office as Consul at Hamburg and giving your views on tlie policy of 
the Administration, has been received. Tour resignation is accepted with 
regret. Thfe Department has every reason to be satisfied with your man- 
ner of performing the delicate and responsible duties of your Consulate. 
The records of the Department show you to have been a faitlrful ofTicer of 
the government. Tour letter has been read by the President, who expresses 
much satisfaction at the sound and liberal views therein. given. 

I am. Sir, 

Tour obedient Servant. 

William H-. Seward." 

Devoted as Mr. Anderson had been to President Lincoln throughout 
the war period, and despite his strong attachment to the Republican 
party, he could not conscientiously withhold his approval of the Southern 
Policy of President Johnson ; and in 1866 he was sent as a delegate from 
the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio, to the National Union Con- 
vention at Philadelphia. In 1866, President Johnson tendered him an 
appointment as Chief Justice of Montana Territory, which he declined, 
not wishing to leave home again, but accepted the office of Collector of 
Internal Revenue, of the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio. 

While Mr. Anderson was discharging his duties as U. S. Collector, 
Hon. John Sherman wrote the following letter to the President : 

"Senate Chamber, February ISth, 1867. 
Sir: — I most earnestly recommend James H. Anderson, of Ohio, late 
consul at Hamburg, for appointment to a mission or leading consulate. He 

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is a gentleman of high character and abilities, who as consul at Hamburg, 
rendered very valuable services to the country. He Is well qualified for any 
trust. I will not hesitate to urge his confirmation to any Executive ap- 
pointment within your gift. 

Very respectfully yours. 
To the President." John Sherman. 

Hon. W. S. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, handed it to the President. 
Mr. Anderson never called on the President after this letter was written, 
although invited to do so. He received a lengthy and very friendly let- 
ter from Senator Sherman, dated New York, April (Jth, 18G7, which con- 
cludes as follows: "I am here arranging for my trip to Paris, and sail 
on the 13th. I certainly will miss nf) opportunity to do you a kindness, 
not only on your own account, hut on your father's, for whom I have 
always felt the highest regard'.' 

As the President, the secretary of state, and lioih of the Ohio Sena- 
tors, were friends of Mr. Anderson, an appointment to a high position 
might easily have been obtained ; but he had now resolved that he would 
not accept an office of any kind, and having large landed interests in 
Marion and Wyandot counties he soon moved to Upper Sandusky, opened 
a law office, engaged in banking, also in farming, and stock and wool 
growing on a mtich larger scale than ever before, and continued in ac- 
tive and profitable business till 1874 when he removed to Columbus, his 
present place of residence. While living in Upper Sandusky he was 
elected for three years a member of the Board of Education. In 1878, 
he was appointed by Governor Bishop, trustee of the Ohio State Univer- 
sity, and for seven years was chairman of the Executive Committee of 
the Board of Trustees. At his suggestion the Board conferred upon 
Allen G. Thurman, then president pro tciul^itrc of the United Stales Sen- 
ate, and upon Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of the United States, the 
lionorary degree of Doctor of Laws ; and the resolutions appropriate to 
th'e occasion were drafted by Mr. Anderson. These distinguished 
Ohioans were the first to receive the degree from this 'eminent seat of 
learning. 

The year that General Thomas Ewing was a candidate for governor 
of Ohio, (1879), at his earnest request, Mr. Anderson became a member 
of the State Exectttive Committee, and its secretary. 

Mr. Anderson takes a deep interest and an active part in the pro- 
ceedings of the patriotic and other organizations of which he is a mem- 
ber. At the National Congress of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, held in May, 1899, in Detroit, he was elected Vice President Gen- 
'eral of the National Society. He was a delegate from the Ohio Society 
to the National Congress, Sons of the American Revoltttion, at Morris- 
town, N. J., in May, 1898; at Detroit, in May, 1899; at New York City, 
in May, 1900, and at Pittsburg, in May, 1901. He has long been a life 
■member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ; and in 
May, 1899, was elected a trustee of the Society for three years, and in 
1902, was re-elected for a like term. 

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Mr. Anderson has long l)een a member of the world-wide and hon- 
orable order of Ancient Frtc and Accepted Masons, and expects to re- 
main one. 

He has attended as a delegate many political conventions — senatorial,, 
judicial, congressional, state and national; also the National Wool Grow- 
ers' Convention at Washington ; and has for a long time attended the 
Annual meetings of the Ohio State Bar Association, and when able to 
do so, of the American Bar Association. 

He is a member of the Bar Association of Franklin county, Ohio ; of 
the Ohio State Bar Association, and of the American Bar Association. 
He was elected at Put-in-Bay in July, 1901, one of the Vice Presidents 
of the Ohio State Bar Association. He is a member of The Old North- 
west Genealogical Society, and was elected its president January 2, 1902 ; 
was an active member for years of the Historical Society of Virginia ; 
and received a polite invitation dated December 15, 1882, to become a 
member of the Victoria Institute or Philosophical Society of Great 
Britain. 

Mr. Anderson has been interested in several Ohio banking institu- 
tions as stockholder, director, manager, and president. On his farms and 
city lots, he has in the past 25 years erected many buildings — probably 
sixty — brick and frame. He has also cleared for cultivation large tracts 
of virgin forest land, and drained and reclaimed wide areas of svvamp- 
lancf — in all probably 1,500 acres. He has constructed miles of open 
ditches, and laid miles of drain tile. He has owned and cared for 
thousands of sheep, and many cattle, horses and hogs. His flocks and 
herds, and live stock generally, always included some registered thor- 
oughbreds. 

He has never taken much interest in hunting, or fishing, or "sport" 
of any sort. True he has owned pointers and setters, and many good 
horses, but bird-dogs and race-horses have not occupied his time, or his 
thoughts. He has traveled quite extensively in the United States, Canada 
and in foreign parts, particularly in Europe, where three of his children 
were born. 

His father and mother were baptized and partly reared in the Epis- 
copal Church — the church of his ancestors — but in the absence of that 
denomination where they resided, they joined the M. E. Church, in 
which he was broi:ght up. While many church members — laymen and 
ministers — are thought to be hypocrites or whited sepulchers, Mr. A. 
firmly believes that all churches are doing much good, in teaching de- 
portment, morality, and the way of life. As a true patriot he believes 
in a strong government of the people, by the American people, for the 
American people : one that will hold in check mobs, rogues, disaffected 
aliens, and dangerous characters like anarchists. He further believes 
ithat the government of our country can be as safely lodged in the hands 
of the descendants of the patriots and soldiers of the American Rcx'olu- 
tion, as in the hands of other patriotic citizens. 

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Since early manhood lie has been more or less engaged in public af- 
fairs, in the praclice of tin- law, in banking, in farming, in stock-raising, 
and wool-growing: but his i)rincipal enjoyment is i)robably found in 
reading and in literary work, lie has had many rare and notable cor- 
respondents ;^ has written much for the press, and more or less for maga- 
zines, and is the author of several unpublished volumes. He came to 
Columbus in the spring of 1873 ; was one of the original stockholders 
and directors of the Citizens' Savings Bank, founded that year : pur- 
chased much city real estate, and a few months later removed his family 
to the residence he now occupies — 788 East Broad street. 

The children of James H. and Princess A. Anderson, are Mary 
Princess : Lieut. James Thomas Anderson, U. S. A. ; Charles Finley, 
Merchant, Paducah, Ky. ; Amelie Ellen, deceased, and Alice Florence, 
deceased. 

Mary Princess was married to Prof. Edward Orton, Jr., of the Ohio 
State University, son of the distinguished scientist. Dr. Edward Orton, 
LL. D. ; James Thomas, was married to Miss Helen Bagley, the accom- 
plished daughter of the late Governor John J. Bagley, of Detroit, Mich. ; 
Charles Finley, was married to Miss Minerva Ann Flowers, of Paducah, 
Ky., a descendant of one of the oldest prominent slaveholding families 
in the South. Amelie Ellen, died at the home of her parents at the age 
■of seven; Alice Florence, always an invalid, died January 24, 1895, at 
Santa Fe, N. M., of pneumonia. Lieut. James T. and Helen Bagley 
Anderson are blessed with one child, Helen Anderson. Charles F. and 
Minerva A. Anderson have two children, Mary Princess Anderson, and 
Dorothy Burton. 

Mrs. James H. Anderson's mother was Sarah Bent, daughter of 
Abner, son of Col. Silas Bent. In Mr. Allen H. Bent's History of the 
Bent Family in America, which he traces from A. D. 1510, and which 
came from Penton-Grafton, Eng., in 1638 to Sudbury, Mass., he gives 
on page "281 the Bent (of Basford House), Coat-of-Arms. as follows: 
azure on fesse or, between six besants three torteux. Crest — a demi-lion 
azure holding between his paws a bezant. Motto : nee tcmere nee timide. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SICETCH. 

Lieutenant James Thomas Anderson, U. S. A., son of James H. and 
Princess A. Anderson, was born March 20, 1802, in the great commer- 
cial city of Hamburg, Germany, where his father was residing as United 
States Consul. Late in the fall of that year in the company of his 
mother, and sister Mary, he left Hamburg for the United States, to visit 
relatives in Ohio. Mrs Anderson and the two children returned to Ger- 
many in June, 1803, — the year of the Great International Agricultural 
Exhibition at Hamburg. 

In 1865 he was attacked with membranous croup. The attending 
physicians gave him up to die, but by the skillful operation of a cele- 



1 He has now 12 bound volumes of letters from prominent people 
received while he was abroad. 

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brated hospital surgeon, (called in after all remedies had failed), his-- 
life was saved. It was the talk of the time, and added greatly to the 
surgeon's professional reputation. In 18G6 he left Hamburg with his 
parents — his father intending to resign his office — for the United States. 
y\fter spending a few weeks with his grand parents in Marion, Ohio, he 
went with his parents to live in Mansfield, his father having been ap- 
pointed by President Johnson, U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue, and' 
Disbursing Agent, for the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio. Here 
he remained two years, until his parents removed to Upper Sandusky, O. 
In the latter place he attended school, and spent many happy hours on 
the large estates hard-by, that have long been, and still remain in the 
possession of his family. 

On May 1, 1874, his parents removed to Columbus, and the Capital 
City became his home. Here he attended the public schools, the High 
School, (the dancing academy a short time), and the Ohio State Uni- 
versity. He graduated from the University — of which his father was 
one of the trustees — in June, 1884, receiving the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. Few young men about to finish a collegiate course, ever received 
higher testimonials than the ones now in his possession, written by Dr. 
William H. Scott, President of the Ohio State University, Edward Orton, 
LL.D., ex-President of the University, George Ruhlen, First Lieut. 17th 
U. S. Infantry, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, at the O. S. 
University, Judge W. H. Taft, now Governor General of the Philippine 
Islands, and other eminent men competent to speak as to his merits. 

In July, 1884, he was designated by President Arthur for appoint- 
ment as a Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Army. After passing success- 
fully the rigid examinations at Fort Monroe, he received his commission 
in the month of October following. He was first stationed at Fort 
Concho, in Western Texas, where he remained two years. This fort 
was in a wild, rough, lawless section of the country, but the place had 
its charms, for he enjoyed his military duties, and riding over the vast 
mirage haunted prairies, looking at the immense stock ranges, their great 
flocks and herds, and he also found pleasure in pursuing the peccary 
and other game. 

He was transferred from Fort Concho to San Antonio, Texas, where 
he had charge of the conslruction of a target range, and later had partial 
charge of the celebrated Indian Chief Geronimo, and his brother, and 
about 500 more bad Apache Indians, whom he and another lieutenant 
conveyed to two old Spanish forts in Florida, namely : Fort San Marco, 
in St. Augustine, and Fort San Carlos del Barancas, in Pensacola. On 
the way to Florida, not far from New Orleans, he narrowly escaped 
drowning in Lake Pontchartrain. 

His next post after leaving Texas, was Fort Du Chesne, in a wild 
mountainous part of Utah, where Indians and game abounded. It was 
a dreary locality but he enjoyed it because the altitude and rarified air 
seemed to agree with him, imparting much needed health and strength. 

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Here, in this remote, tksolate. barren cmmtry. lie sncnt two c;)nipara- 
tively happy years, in llie performance of mihtary dnlii's. in pursuing 
his studies, and in liuntinsj;, cast of the post, nca.r and lieyond the Coifi- 
rado line, elk and other big game. 

His next post, the on.e then most coN-elnl in llrj :irmy, was on 
David's Island, in Long Islan.d Somul. Here he had every a.dvantage 
of good socict}-, and good healthful sport that he could wish. He spent 
nuich time on the water, for he and ar.oiher young officer owned a fine 
yacht which was a source of much enjoyment. This was his happiest 
experience in army life. The libraries of New York City were at his 
disposal, and he was ever welcome at any yacht club. 

After two years spent on the island, he was sent by the War De- 
partment to the United States Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort 
Leavenworth, from wdiich he graduated in two years. 

While in Texas, in charge of the Apache Indians, and otherwise, 
exposed, he caught a severe cold, which cidmin.aled in asthmatic and 
pulmonary afflictions. So after finishing the curriculum at Fort Leaven- 
worth, he was given a Iea\'e of absence on account of sickness. Since 
he entered the service, he had lielonged to the Kith regiment of U. S. 
Infantry. He was now transferred to the 25111, and as soon as his health 
permitted he was detailed to Fort Buford, in North Dakota, near the 
Canadian border. 

This post is situate on the Missouri river, about a mile from the 
mouth of the Yellowstone, and the country is a rolling prairie ;is far as 
the eye can reach, with a little timber along the streams, and ;i hiitte 
now and then to break the monotony. He siient but little time ;it this 
post — not more than three ov four months. 

Deer were plentiful but so were mosf|uitoes, a.nd the heat was ter- 
rible, and as he was all the time very ill. scarcely able to breathe, life 
became a burden, and the other officers during July feared he would die. 
So his brother-in-law. Prof. Edward Orton, Jr., went from Columbus, 
O., to F'ort Buford, and took the invalid to Colorado S])rings, where he 
soon got better. 

The War Department now granted him a furlough, or sick furlough, 
and continued to do so whenever he needed one, and always treated 
him with 'every consideration. 

In the year 1805, on account of protracted indisposition, he w.is 
relieved entirely from active duty and placed on the retired list. He is 
still an army officer, under pay, and may be called into the .aclive service 
at any time if he should be needed. He now resides at Colorado Springs, 
one of the few places wh.ere he can breathe freely, and enjoy some de- 
gree of health and comfort. He was married to Miss lielen l!agley, 
daughter of the late (iovernor I'agley of Michigan, a lady of much 
ability. May 26, 1898. Their only child, Helen, was born June (i, IS!)!). 

He became a member of the Phi Gamma Delta College Fraternity, 
May 1, 1880, while a student at the Ohio State University. 

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The diploma conferring on liim the degree of Bachelor of Arts, is 
dated June 18, 1884. 

His commission as Second Lieutenant in the 16th regiment, U. S. 
Army, is dated Octoher 30, 1884, and is signed by Chester A. Arthur, 
President, and Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War. 

He is a member of the Military Service Institution of the United 
States. His certificate of membership, under the seal of the Institution, 
at Gov'crnor's Island, New York Harbor, is dated September 12, 1891. 

He is a memlier of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. 

He is a member of the Societ}' of Colonial Wars. 

He is a member of the District of Columbia St)ciety of the Sons of 
the American Revolution. 

His commission as First Lieutenant of U. S. Infantry, to rank as 
such from November 1, 1891, is dated January 7, 189"2; and is signed by 
Benjamin Harrison, President, and S. B. Elkins, Secretary of War. 

His diploma from the U. S. Infantry and Cavalry School, declaring 
him proficient in Military Art, Infantry, Cavalry, Engineering, Law, 
and Military Hygiene, is dated Fort Leavenworth, June 15, 1893. He 
was elected Deputy Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars, January 
18, 1902, at Denver, Colorado— succeeding Hon. E. O. Wolcott, late U. 
S. Senator. 

The state of his health has been the one drawback in his career, 
and in the service, for otherwise, with his ability, learning, ambition, and 
passionate love of the profession of arms he might have achieved great 
distinction. 

The sulijoined certificate and letter were received by Lieut, ."\nder- 
son from the celebrated historian and author. Dr. W^ H. Egle, M. D., 
respecting the military services during the American Revolution of Cap- 
tain Andrew Rabb, the great-great-grandfather of Lieut. Anderson : 

OFFICK OF STATE HISTORIAN. 

Harrisburg. Penn., September 13. 1900. 
To Whom it Map Concern: 

I hereby certify to the military services of Captain Andrew Rabb 
(sometimes written Robb) in the war of the Revolution as follow.s: 

Andrew Rabb (Robb) was a Captain of Westmoreland County Rangers 
on tiie Frontiers of Pennsylvania on several tours of duty in 1778. 1779, and 
17S0. (For reference see Penn'a. Archives, Third Series, vol xxiii. pp. 282 
and 314; also Penn'a. Archives. Second Series, vol. xiii. pp. 187 and 194, on 
the list of those who received Depreciation Pay for actual military services 
in the war of the revolution.) 

Certified by. 

WiT.T.T.vM Henry Egle. M. D.. 
Editor Pvint'd. An-liircs {Second and I'liird .SIcr/r.s. 

Harrisburg, Penn., September 13. 11)00. 
LUul. Jfimcf! T. A)idcr><()ii, L'. 8. A.: 

My Dear Sir: — Enclosed please find Certificate of the militaiy services 
of Capt. Andrew Rabb (or Robb) In the war of the Revolution. The refer- 

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ences with my Certificate are all you desire. The signature of the Secretary 
of the Commonwealth has never been required. 

It may interest you to know that President McKinley's ancestor. David 
McKinley, served two tours of duty in Capt. Rabb's company as he himself 
certifies in his application for a pension. 

Yours with respect. 

William H. Egle. 

ANDER.SON C0.\T-0F-ARMS. 

Anderson: Ar. a saltire engr. betw. two mullets in chief gu. and as many boars' 
heads erased in the flanks az. Crest— An oak tree ppr. Motto: stand sure. 



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INDEX 



Absence, leave of, 430. 

Abolitionism, seemed to be gaining 
ground, 109; The evils of, SS. 

Abolitionists, The, 72, 87, 92. 

Academies, The, 'So. 

Academy, U. S. Naval, 1G4. 

Ackley, Miss Jennie, 410. 

Adams, C. F. , the U. S. Minister, and 
Anderson, J. H., the U. S. Consul, 
thwart rebel agents, 222. 

Adams, F. G., Secretary, tells how W. 
Walker got the title of governor, 114. 

Adams, John, 4, 10. 

Adams John Ouincy, 10, 25. 

Ade'e, Alvey A., Acting Secretary of 
State, 1902, 113. 

Adelphi, where Mr. and Mrs. T. J. An- 
derson* were married, 3.3. 

Adjtitant General of Ohio, 4. 

Advocate, W. C. , contains '"Recollec- 
tions" of Mrs. Mary Gilruth, 33. 

Ainsworth, Gen. F. C., 6. 

Albun^ of photographs, 205. 

Allen, Charles, 293. 

Allen, Curtis, 293. 

Allen, Dwyer, 241. 

Allen, Col. Julian, 3G2 ; his secret mis- 
sion, sketch of, 361. 

Allen, E. (;., a life sketch, 293; 342; 
367. 

Allen, Gen. Ethan, 293. 

Allen, Gen. James, editor C)nio State 
Journal in 1840, 105; 110. 

Allen, Rev. S. M., missionary, 45. 

Allen, Susan Lovelace, 483. 

Alster, The, 192. 

American Colonization Society, The, 
50; Missions, History of, 75; Insti- 
tute, The, elects J. H. Anderson a 
member, 283; House, Columbus, O., 
432. 

Ames, Bishop E. R., 409; sketch of, 
406. 

Ancestors, Our Virginia, 45G. 

Anderson, Abner, 3, 4. 

Anderson, Alice F. , portrait, 494. 

Anderson, Amelie E. , 484; sketch of, 
486. 

Anderson, Annie E, 29, IIG, 117, 126, 
147, 154, 155, 159, 180, 188, 193, 195; 
Miss Annie E. , strawberry festival, 
220; 221, 275, 286, 287, 293, 299, 307, 
320, 322; about presents, mourning 
dresses, etc., 327; 328; dresses or- 



dered, .•;rS; 3:.';J, Zii. 492; her letter:- 
death of father. 490; her letter: 
paralysis of father, 489; 488, 4SG, 482; 
her presents, 432; 383; her nice- 
presents, 345; sketch of, 353; 493. 

Anderson, Asphelia Henrietta, 116. 

Anderson Bottom, The, 2, 3, 36; birth- 
place of T. J. Anderson, 175; owners 
of, sketch of,, 454; 455, 45G, 457, 458,. 
459, 464, 465. 

Anderson, C. F., 116, 121, 368, 384, 392, 
415, 433, 441, 450; portrait, 484. 

Anderson, Clay W. , 116; his letter, 283;; 
sketch of, 326, 478; 473,474,475,476. 

Anderson, Da-^nd, 16, 191. 

Anderson's Delight, plat of, 1. 

Anderson, Dorothy Burton, 116. 

Anderson, Elizabeth, 3, 5, 8. 

Anderson, Ellen, 36. 

Anderson, Mrs. F. M., 139. 

Anderson, F. M., 5, 36, 139, 173. 

Anderson, F. M., 36, 135; child 
drowned, 139; 173; sketch of, 212; 
Mr. and Mrs. F. M., 299; 410. 

Anderson, George, 3, 4. 

Anderson, Goshom, Kline, Lawrence,. 
Bowers, Virginia slave-hunters ar- 
rested, 99. 

Anderson, Ciov. Charles, a sketch of bis- 
life, 269; 2'^7, 3i:4. 

Anderson. Harry W. , his children: 
Bertha L. and Frank M., 212. 

Anderson, Helen, 116. 

Anderson, Hiram, 4, 16. 

Anderson, H. H., 8. 17. 

Anderson, Rev. H. H., 8, 16; a sketch- 
of, 16; 142, 191. 

Anderson, I. J., 354, 433. 

Anderson, James, 3, 5, G, 7; and wife, 
where buried, 8; 9, 10, 11. 12, 14, 
17, 113, 116; son of H. H. Anderson, 
191; Capt. James, 269; 4J5, 4S1. 

Anderson, J. H., his address on Col. 
Crawford, 47; 63, 113, 114, 116, 121; 
in Washington, in 1861, in danger, 
125; letter from Liverpool, 127; his 
journey, 129; seasickness, 131: his 
safe arrival in Hamburg, pleasant sit- 
uation, 1.35; 136, 165, 166, 167: Eng- 
lish vessels before port of Hamburg, 
169; 171; recommends ofificer, 181; 
184; letter from, 187; 190; trip to 
Brussels, and field of Waterloo, keep- 
ing a diary,, 2.15; 218;; \J.. S.. Consul, 



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his activity, plans of rebel agents 
thwarted, 222; 226, 227; complimen- 
tary official letters, his part in the 
capture of the • steamer Columbia, 
247; gave his father a cane, inscrip- 
tion on, cut on field of Waterloo, 
248; as U. S. Consul, presented gold 
medal to the Chief Burgomaster at 
Hamburg, to be given to Captain 
Wiebess, of the bark Mercuric, 250; 
offers to send soldiers and sailors for 
the army and navy, 253; to the De- 
partment of State about emigration, 
254; dispatch to Secretary of State, 
about present of arms by King of 
Bavaria, 260; his dispatch about Great 
International Exhibition at Hamburg 
published in many papers, 263; 262, 
264; his dispatch to Hon. Wm. H. 
Seward, 265; 267; the release of Juda 
Polak, 272; 278, 273; receives com- 
plimentary letter, 281; 283; is elected 
a member, 283; 288, 297, 299, 306; a 
barrel of apples sent to him, 320; his 
subscription, etc., 326; his letter in 
New York Tribune, 32S; 329, 33!), S.Sl, 
332; correspondence, 332; sketch of, 
348; his contributions, 360; money 
for Fair, 362; 363, 369, 370, 377, 37S, 
380, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 42S, 437, 
439, 441; his arrival, 442, 443; a 
speech, 445; 447, 449, 468, 472, 474, 
478, 479, 480, 482; his published let- 
ter, 486; his live stock, 487. 

Anderson, jNIrs. J. H. , attended school, 
43; 79, 125, 147, 178, ISO, 19'J, 217; 
exercise for delicate persons, a treatise 
on, 227; 238, 244; children Mary and 
James arrived in Marion, Oct. 10, 
1S62, all well, 245; 247, 249; typhoid 
pneumonia, 273; 281; when she will 
start to Hamburg, 282; 392, 407, 4S3. 

Anderson, James M., 1, 8; son of Rev. 
H. H. A., 16; 191. 

Anderson, Lieut. James Thomas, U. S. 
A., 110, 121; when born, graduated, 
etc., 207; sketch of his life, 208; 221, 
256, 266, 270, 310, .324, .384; Mary 
and Charles, 444; 441, 484. 

Anderson, John, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 36; 
sketch of, 36; 90, 140, 158, 164, 180, 
354; his age, death, etc., 465; 492. 

Anderson, John, son of Thomas, 3. 

Anderson, John M., 30. 

Anderson, John S., 116. 

Anderson, John W. , 16. 

Anderson Jonathan, 3, 4. 

Anderson, Joseph, 3, 4. 

Anderson, Josiah, 4. 



Anderson, Larz, vice president, report 
of, 341. 

Anderson, Levi, S, :«;, 292, 300, 303, 
314; has consumiition, 325; 336; his • 
funeral, 337. 

Anderson, Margaret, second wii'e of 
William, 17. 

Anderson, Margaret, 3, 4, 116, 455. 

Anderson, Mary Princess, daughter of 
Charles F. A., 110; 1.35, 155, 171, 176; 
a bird song, 179; 138, 192, 193, 207, 
209; and James T. Anderson, 247; 
and her brother James T. , 249; 256, 
206, 270, 274; as a painter, 313; 324,. 
344, 4.37, 441, 481. 

Anderson, Mahala, 8. 

Anderson, Martha, was drowned, 139. 

Anderson, Mary II., 110. 

Anderson, Margaret A., 36. 

Anderson Minerva J.. 36. 

Anderson, Minerva, 10 I. 

Anderson, Orrel E., 110, 174. 

Anderson, Priscilla House, S. 

.\nder?on. Rachel, 3, 4, 17. 

,\ndersGn, Rebecca, 8. 

Anderson, Gen. Robert, of Ft. Sumter, 
26:' ; 155, 287. 

^Anderson, Robert, 54, 05, OS. 

Anderson. Col. K. C, of the Revolu- 
tion, a sketch of, 209. 

Anderson. Ruth. S. 

.Anderson, Sarah, 3: wife of Thomas, 
17. 

.\nderson. Miss Sina, 4. 

Anderson, Susan, 36. 

Anderson, Thomas, 2, 3, 4, 5; death 
of, 8; 17, 455, 481. 

Anderson, Capt. Thomas, soldier of the 
Revolution, 269. 

Andersons, The, Whigs during and 
after the Revolution, 11; in Ohio, in 
1806, 12; sketches of, 116. 

.Andersons, in the Civil War, 8. 

Anderson, Capt. T. J., Jr., :«>; 304, .342; 
sick, 419; sketch of, 435; his funeral, 
436. 

Anderson. T. J., Jr., 15S, 104, 173, 180, 
186, :-27, 332, 39!). 

.\nderson, Thomas J., .rontispicce. 

.\nder.son, Thomas J., 7. 12. 13, 14, 15, 
10; his marriage, IS; 20, 21; his 
home and place ot business, 22; 23; 
in the cattle trade, fur trade, wool 
trade, etc., 24; 25; associate judge, 
takes oath of office, 26; resident 
judge, 27; 2S, 3',1 ; receives letter 
from -Rev. James C.ilrutli, 31; 33; a 
self-made man, a friend of schools, 
34; his enjoyments at home and 



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abroad, 3G; his disposition and char- 
-acter, 37; a temperate man, 40; his 
prowess and feats of strengtii, 41; a 
friend of the missionaries, 45; 46; 
his opinion of Indian honesty, 47; 
48, 49; his opposition to slavery, 50; 
51, 52, 54; blood boil, 57; above 
fear, 58; burst open the back door, 
61; 64; one of the associate judges, 
66; demanded admittance, 68; they 
threatened to shoot him, 69; 71, 73, 
74, 78, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 96, 98, 99; 
associate judge, 102; 103, 104, 105, 
107, 109; re-elected judge. 111: the 
hero of the affair, 115; the offices he 
held after leaving the bench, his patri- 
otic labors during the Civil War, 116; 
while visiting in the West, stricken 
with paralysis, 117; was buried in 
Marion, Masonic and religious rites 
and services, 118; 119, 121; beautiful 
flags, patriotic speeches, 127: 129, 
133, i;35, 141, 142, 147, 149, 150, 154, 
158, 173, 175, 176; his office a de- 
pository, 179; his duties as Master 
Commissioner, 186; as Master Com- 
missioner, 195; 196; must bear heavy 
war tax like men, 197; 203; Pittsburg 
Landing, heavy loss of life, 206; but 
little law business, reappointed Mas- 
ter Commissioner, 207; 209; health 
of Mrs. J. H. Anderson and children, 
210; 211; learns of birth of son, 225; 
a deceased soldiers pay, a photo- 
graph, 228; 230; was administrator 
of estate of Dr. J. D. Gailey, 239; 
241, 246, 251; and others, in Wyan- 
dot county, 254; money plenty, no 
specie, use shin plasters for change, 
259; 271, 279, 292; Charleston, Ft. 
Sumter, etc., 305; 317; his letter 
about children and grandchildren, 320; 
321; and daughter Annie., in camp, 
335; 336, 342, 374, 382, 387, 440; his 
nice presents, 443; receives presents, 
454; 459, 468, 478, 480, 481; his last 
letter, 489; his death: kindness of the 
Masons, 491; his death, 492. 
-Anderson, Mrs. Thomas J., 20, 117, 119, 
120, 121; her inheritance, her edu- 
cation, her love of music and flow- 
ers. 122; her love of reading, writ- 
ing, traveling, 123; her character, her 
death, 124; 125; suggests what to 
study, 130; 139, 145, 157, 153, 159, 
161, 164, 170, 174, 177, 178, 181, 184; 
American traitors, their enterprises, 
187; the modern languages, 190; 192; 
sends wine to sick soldiers, 193; 



celebration of Washington's birthday, 
advance of our armies, etc., 197; a 
pleasant dinner party, 199; 200; the 
satisfaction of knowing he has done 
his duty, and is appreciated, 206; 
208; cruel war, 210; 211, 212, 213; 
our war troubles, 215; our armies 
victorious, Memphis has fallen. Gen. 
Butler in New Orleans, 216; 218; 
beautiful roses, strawberries abund- 
ant, 219; celebration of July 4th at 
Peyton Hord's Grove, 227; battle of 
Manassas, Gen. Pope's official report, 
237; 251, 258; her letter, 277; 280, 
291, 2H(i; will send apples, eggs, 
butter, lard, etc., to Lrermany, 300; 
302; a dinner party, 303; 309, 317; 
her health, the borders of Italy, 318; 
323, 324; about the Great Fair at 
Cincinnati, etc., 335; sends presents, 
341; 34:^, 344; her presents, 346; 347, 
;B52, 359, 382, 386; receives presents, 
404; 405, 435, 439, 440, 4S0, 485, 487; 
her last sickness, 488. 

Anderson, Dr. Virgil D., 116, 14:^, 144, 
145, 148, 159, 164, 168, 169, 213, 245; 
waiting for a ticket to start to Ger- 
many, 246; 269; death of, 315; 317, 
319; sketch of, 323; 325; his like- 
ness, 339; 343, 411, 471, 472, 473. 

Anderson, William, 1, 2, 3; son of 
William, killed by Indians, 3; son 
of Thomas, 4; first settler of the An- 
derson Tiottoni, 17; of Scotland, his 
second wife, his wealth, 17; 176, 455, 
467. 

Andrews, Lorin, president Kenyon Col- 
lege, 133. 

Antietam, The battle of. full account 
of, 244. 

Anti-slavery men, at Davenport, 32. 

Appraiser of property. 27. 

Arch-villain, The, 331. 

Arkansas, 431. 

Arkansas Post, battle of, sketch of, 271. 

Aristocracy, The, 402. 

Armstrong, George, a VV'yandot Indian, 
46. 

Armstrong, J. M., married daughter of 
Rev. R. Bigelow, 46. 

Armstrong, Mrs. Lucy Bigelow, daugh- 
ter of Rev. R. Bigelow, 46. 

Armstrong, .Silas, a Wyandot Indian, 
4f); the good Wyandot, 241. 

Arms, The public, assaulted Bartram's 
office, 98; purchased, 185; in Europe, 
by a rebel agent, exposed by Consul 
Anderson, 222. 



508 



Ind 



ex 



Army of the Northwest, The, 13; sutler, 
who lived on the Rio Grande, Texas, 
23; and Navy, 178; of Lee, .'idl. 

Armies, the western, have done the 
fighting, iSG. 

Arsenal The, broken oiien, o" ; forced 
the door of, (iS. 

Art Committee, The, 363. 

Article, very sarcastic, 93. 

Ashbaugh, A., 90, 92. 

Ashbaugh, F., 90, 92. 

Ashbaugh, John, 20. 

Ass&ssin, 86. 

Assassins of the President on trial, 447. 

Assassination of Lincoln, 446. 
•Associate Jtidge of Marion county, 105. 

Associate Judges, one of, 73. 

Atlanta, Ga., 196. 

Atlantic and Great Western R. K., 310. 

Atonement the South is making, 399. 

Atwood, the New York banker, 134. 

Ault, Adam, 128, 336. 

Ault, Ed., 336. 

Ault, Elizabeth, 12S, .3.36. 

Ault, John, 173, 273, 299; biographical 
sketch, 300; 303, 392, 393, 395. 

Ayres, David, his wiH, 43. 

Ayres, Eliza Jane, sister of David Ay- 
res, married an Indian, 43. 

Babel, A, four young ladies are mak- 
ing, 199. 

Bagley, Miss Helen, 116, 208. 

Bagley, Gov. John J., 116, 208. 

Baker, Charles, 293, 342, 358. 

Baker, Eber, founder of Marion, O., 
IS; 90, 92, 288; biographical sketch 
of, 35S; 367; his death, etc., 413. 

Baker, Col. E. D., 157; ambushed and 
slain, 158. 

Baker, Elizabeth, 337. 

Baker, Rev. Geo. W., 207, 288, 35S. 

Baker, H. W., 90. 

Baker, John, 17. 

Baker, Lincoln, 90; tavern keeper, 92; 
35S. 

Baker's tavern, in Marion, 71. 

Baker's Woods, 312. 

Bain, Abraham M., 379. 

Bain, John W., 1.53, 1.57, 275, 379, 410, 
414. 

Bain, Mrs. John W., 146, 185, ISO; 
dreadfully afflicted, 213; 356. 

Bain, Julia Hall, 379. 

Bain, Mary Lane, 184. 

Bain, Minnie R., 379. 

Bain, William, 39, 90, 92, 152; born in 
Dundee, died in Marion, 184. 
' Bain, Mrs. William, 184. 



I'.ain .^- W il 
r.anjo. Tin-, 
I'.ank sf.ck, 
liank. The 

Irving (if X 
l!;,nks, (len 
lianks liavc 



played by I'.lack Bill, 53. 

449, 450. 

"ranklin National, 30: 'Ihe- 

^•o^k, 1,53. 
N. P., 282, 294, .332, .371. 
suspended specie payment,. 



i!al<l\vin, Mrs., ;«17. 

Ball, Inaugural, 428. 

I'allantine, Ebenezer, 4. 

Ballentine, John, 93. 

Ballentine, W. G., 93. 

Balloon reconnoissance, A, 201. 

Ball's Bluff, battle of, 157, 158. 

Bancroft, Kev. .\aron, 9. 

Banes, Gen. Horatio, 400. 

Barbacue, 477. 

Barker, J. PL, 27, 115. 

Barnett, Miss, 17. 

Barnett, George, deliriimi Ireniens, 129. 

Barnett, Jack, 129; a volunteer, 163. 

Barrett, Mrs. Jivelina J., 76. 

Barrett, Miss Hannah, 75. 

Bartley, Gov. M., 113, 417. 

Bartley, Thomas \\'., 106; a short time 
governor, later supreme judge, 113. 

Bartram. Hattie, 291. 

Bartram, Mrs. Jane Hopkins, 112. 

Bartram. John, 2(i. 36, 37; issues war- 
rant for niack Bill, 54; 56, 57, 58, 
(U. 62. 67, 69, 71, 72, 73, 79, SO, SS; 
the justice of the peace, 98; 112, 113, 
14'1, 143, 149, 176, 206, 216, 258, 285, 
295, 334, 457, 479. 

Bartram, Mrs. Judge, 198, 289, 31S, 341. 

Bartram, S. H., 112, 149, 178, 192, 212; 
threatened Hodder, 216; 293, 433. 

Bartram, !Mrs. S. IL, her party, 195. 

Bartrams. The, sketches of, 112. 

Bates, Rev. S. D.. 4")7. 

Bearskin, Julm S., 
46. 

T., 9;:. 
.Amanda. 14( 
John. 2, i: 
171; is pron- 



Wyandot Indian,- 



Beach. 

Beatty, 

Beatty, 

14S; 



151, 
, l:iS; skelcli of, 
ted, 191: 201; his 
regiment, 212; 216; in lialtle of 
Perryville, 246; 247: at Chickamauga,, 
.314; 321, 350, 377, .391, 475, 476. 

Beatty, Mrs. Rebecca, 331. 

Beattie, Robert, 154. 

Beatty, A\'. G., 473, 474; sketch of, 475; 
476. 

Beatty, W, G,. Jr, . 475. 

Beauregard, Gen., 142, 148; at Shiloh,. 
204. 

Bebb, William, governor of, Ohio, 26-, 

Beckley,. George,. 9L 



500 



Inde: 



:Beckman, J., 90. 

Beckman, S., 403. 

Bedell, Bishop G. T., sketch of, 424. 

Beemer, H. G. , 374. 

Beerbower, Peter, 26, 89, 91, 392, 491. 

Beerbower, Hattie, 298. 
.Beerbower, Margaret, 196. 

Beery Brothers, 463. 

Beery, Hon. G. W., 408. 

Beery, Geo. W., Jr., 408. 

Beery, Miss Leefe, 252. 

Belt, Rev. L. A., 118. 

Benedict, Aaron L., 60. 

Benedict, Cyrus, 60. 

Benedict, Martin, 60. 

Benedict, Reuben, 60. 

Benedict, William, 60. 

Bennett, S. S., 90, 92, 182. 

Bennett, Mrs. Judge S. S., 136. 

Bent, Abner, 483. 

Bent, Sarah, 483. 

Benton, Thos. H., 159. 

Berlin, A visit to, 143. 

Berry, Curtis, Jr., 43, 76. 

Berry, Hon. John, 70. 

Berry, Sam., and young Diebolt 
wounded, 214. 

Berry's Hill, 367. 

Bethany College, Va., 193. 

Bigelow, Rev. Russell, missionary, 45. 
.Bigelow Chapel, Columbus, O., 16. 

Big Island, The, graveyard, 143. 

Bigger, Rev. D. D., 307. 

liigtree, James, a Wyandot Indian, 46. 

Bill of sale; A, of Black Bill, 53. 

Bingham, John A., 312, 448. 

Birds of ill-omen, 97. 

Bismarck, Prince, invited Mr. Schurz, 
187. 

Blackberries, 484. 

Black Bill, 39, 41; aiias Mitchell, alias 
Anderson, 53; runaway slave, 54; in 
the prisoner's box, 55; was dragged 
and kicked, 56; 57; "the negro 
darted out," 58; his escape and hid- 
ing places, 60; 63, 71; discharge, 72; 
74, 8-2, 83, 87, 88, 89, 93, 95, 96; dis- 
charge, 104; 113, 115. 

Blaine, James, G., 70. 

Blair, Frank P., "a perfect lion," 128. 

Blankets of Mrs. Anderson confiscated, 
185. 

Blue Lodge, The, 28. 

Bobb, John, 81. 

Boker, Mr., government contractor, 166. 

Bolten, August, agent of steamship 
company, 187. 

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 170. 

.'Bond, Joseph, 90. 

510 



Bonds, U. S., 42G, 44.5, 452, 455. 

Bones, Mrs. Iva, sketch of, letter from, 
306. 

Bones, William, 366. 

Book of Books, The, 51. 

Boon companions, 40. 

Boone, Daniel, his colony, 483. 

Booth, John Wilkes, the assassin, 445, 
447. 

Boston, The siege of, 3. 

Bounty, paid soldiers, 397; 456, 457. 

Bouton, Miss Louisa M., 273. 

Bowdish, Samuel, 81, 93. 

Bowdoin College, 137. 

Bowen, .\lbertus, 3Sf). 

Bowen, Ellen M., a sketch of, 2!)4. 

Bowen, Flora P., 137. 

Bowen, Lauren D., 334, 389. 

Bowen, Marcellus, 389. 

Bowen, C.izias, 26, 54; the opinion of 
the court, 55; the decision, Gl : 64, 
63, 6), 71, 85, 92, 94, 06, 99, 102, 103, 
104; re-elected judge, 1S45, and pro- 
moted to supreme judge, 1856, 111; 
137; sketch of, 144; 164, 166, 178, 
206, 213; his fine dwelling on Berry's 
Hill, 229; attacked by bulldog, his 
arm broken, 246; 250, 258, 282, 358; 
biographical, 389; 440, 445, 452, 460, 
473. 

Bowen, Mrs. Ozias, a sumptuous din- 
ner, 199; 213, 299, 358. 

Bowen, Thomas C, sketch of, 164; 389. 

Bowers, Mr., slave hunter, 54. 

Bowie knives and pistols in the court 
room, 54; 57. 

Bowler, R. B. & Co., wholesale mer- 
chants, 36. 

Bowsher, Maj. Anthony, 366. 

Bowsherville, 44. 

Boyd, Harry, 146, 403. 

Boyd, John, 366. 

Boyd, Joseph, 366. 

Boyd, Gen. Joseph F. , biographical 
sketch, 366; letter from, 367; 463, 
476. 

Boyd, Joseph, Sr., 81. 

Boyd, Mary F. , 366. 

Boyd, Robert, 393. 

Boyd, Rev. Robert, of Baltimore Con- 
ference, 21. 

Boydson, Rev. B., missionary, 45. 

Boyle, Hugh, 7. 

Boyle, James, 87. 
Boynton, Amos A., 81. 

Boynton, Amos, 438, 439, 440. 

Boynton, Mrs. Amos, 439. 

Bradley, Mr., 448. 

P.raddock, Gen., army of, 2. 



Index 



Bradon, W., 03. 

Brady, Christ, 138, 176, 27C, 443. 
Bragg, Gen. B., at Shiloh, 204; 313. 
Bridge, Dr. W. W., 212; died in the 

service, 330; 399. 
Briggs, James, 92. 
British steamer. The Trent, Mason and 

Slidell taken from, 203. 
Brock, Gen. Isaac, 13. 
Brokensword, The, 42. 
Bromberg, Mr., U. S. Vice Consul, 126. 
Brook, Rev. J. C, missionary, 45. 
Brooklyn Fair, 364. 
Brooks, N. W., 23. 
Brough, Gov. John, 252, 209, 287, 304, 

310, 312; sketch of his life, 319; 335, 

354, 405. 
Brown, Albert H., 127, 133, 149, 152, 

154, 155, 156, 229. 
Brown, Mrs. A. H., 229. 
Brown, B. B., 23. 
Brown, B. W., 276. 
Brown, Gov. E. A., 293. 
Brown, Capt. James, 195, 206, 229. 
Brown, John D., 175, 200, 201, 414. 
Brown, William, 175, 428. 
Brownell, J. E., slayer of Jackson, 128. 
Brownlee, James, 93. 

Brownlow, Hon. \V. G., sketch of, 338. 
Brownstown, 44. 
Brownsville, Pa., 119. 
Bruce, Miss, of Virginia, 3. 
Bryan, John A., editor O. S. Bulletin, 

75. 
Bryant, Joseph, 349. 
Bryant, J. W. C, owner of stock farm, 

193. 
Buckeye Eagle, The Marion, 15S. 
Buckner, Gen. S. B., surrendered to 

to Gen. Grant, 188; 192. 
Buds are swelling, 206. 
Bucyrus Democrat, The, 71. 
Bull Run, battle of, 140, 142, 148; an- 
other, between Pope on one side and 

Lee and Jackson on the other, 240. 
Bulletin, The Ohio State, 64, 71, 74. 
Bunker, E., 93. 
Bunker Hill, Va., 2, 5. 
Bunker, Justin H., dead, 270; 276, 334. 
Bunker, Peleg, 206; sketch of, .372; 373, 

474. 
Bunker, Mrs. Peleg, 373. 
Bunker, R., 93. 

Burkholder, Rev. J. F., 151, 252, 256. 
Burnet House, The, Cincinnati, 37. 
Burnett, Judge, Cincinnati, 46. 
Burnet, R. W., president of Fair, re- 
port of, 341. 
Burns, Col. B., 481. 



IJurns. Miss Mary, 4S1. 

Bunyan's Pilgrinrs Progress, 51. 

Burner, Rev. M., .'507. 

Burnside, Gen. .\. K., expedition of, 

183; appointed to command the army, 

25.5 ; 332. 
Burr, Aaron, 402. 
Busby, Mrs. Geo. H., .•556. 
Busby, Maj. Geo. H., 87, S9, 91; a 

sketch of, 210; .364, 410, 462. 
Busby, Pauline E. , 217. 
Busby, Miss Susan, 207. 
Bushong, Rev. J. W., 353. 
Bushong, Mrs. J. \V., 488. 
Burt, ^Ir. E., son killeu, 271. 
Butler, Fanny Keniblo, .'Ul. 
Butler, Gen., Its. 
Butler, Joel D. , 39. 

Caledonia Cemetery. The, 91. 

Cameron, J. Donald, 4()1. 

Cameron, Gen. Simon, 422. 

Camp Chase, rebel prisoners at, a motley 

set, poorly clad, 198; 271; 5,0i;0 rebel 

prisoners, 324. 
Camp Delaware, 238: Dennison, 130; 

Jackson, 130; Pendleton, 156; Simon 

Kenton, 174, 17). 
Camp, Will, 416. 
Campaign of 1S40, songs of, 11; The 

Presidential of 1840, 94. 
Campbell, Rev. Alexander, 21, 193, 349. 
Campbell, Frank, sketch, 322; 354, 457. 
Campbell, Rev. T. C, born in India, 

died in Marion, 217. 
Campmeetings, 41. 
Canada, 48; a beeline or bee-line for, 

59 ; 63. 
Canonsburg Academy, 119. 
Cantwell, Col. James, sketch of, 162; 

175. 179; killed, 240. 
Card playing in Marion in '39, 39. 
Carnahan, M. A., 470. 
Carney, Gov. Tom, 36. 
Capt. Pipe, 42. 
Capt. Pipe, Jr., 42. 

Captain and other scouts captured, 180. 
Captains killed, 175. 
Carpenter, Alice, 160. 
Carpenter, Ella A., 160. 
Carpenter, Rev. George, .32. 
Carpenter, Herbert, 160. 
Carpenter, Howard, 160. 
Carpenter, James F. , 160. 
Carpenter, Dr. J. H., sketch of, 160; 

164, 173, 322, 342. 
Carpenter, Mary, 160. 
Carpenter, Matilda Gilruth, 32. 
Carpenter, Thomas A., 160. 

611 



Index 



Carpenter, Walter, 160. 

Carpenter, Dr. W. B., 32. 

Carrick's Ford, The battle of, 141, 142, 

151. 
Carter, Caroline, 474. 
Carter, David, 374. 
Cass, Gen. Lewis, 272. 
Catholics, 87. 
Cattle and other live stock, 24; and 

farm productions, 32; 473. 
Caudy, Mr. C. H., his drawing, 458. 
Cave, Rev.- Alfred N., S. 
Cedar Creek, battle of, 414. 
Celebration, Fourth of July, 136; of 

Lee's surrender, etc., 445. 
Cbafifee, Mr., 466. 
Chambers, John, 277. 
Chambers, John W., 283, 284. 
Chancellorsville, The battle of, 281. 
Charivari, The, 124. 
Charloe, James T., a Wyandot Indian, 

46. 
Charleston, W. Va., 53. 
Charleston, S. C, 160. 
Chase, Bishop, Worthington, O., 75. 
Chase, Gov. S. P., Ill, 307, 389; ten- 
dered resignation, 390. 
Chili, minister to, 70. 

Chattanooga, battle of, 16; 313; The 
defences of, 315; The battle of, an 
account of it, 327; Lookout Moun- 
tain, and Knoxville, battles of, 332. 
Checkered store. The, 196. 
Chicago, 36; Fair, 364. 
Chickahominy, The terrible battles on 

and near, 333. 
Chickamauga, an account of the battle, 
311; 313; The battle of, the 121st 
Ohio regiment, 315; 318. 
Children's Home, called "The Benjamin 
Waddel's Children's Home," founded 
by Benj. Waddel, 230. 
Chillicothe, 3. 
Cliisholm, Alex., 455. 
Christian, Geo. B., 217. 
Christian, Dr. J. M., 143; sketch of, 

217 ; 366. 
Christian Commissions, an account of, 

343. 
Christian IX.. king of Denmark, his- 
torical data, 340. 
Cholera, The, 471, 472. 
Church, The Episcopal, 2, 4, 11, 20; 

The M. E., 11, 20, 21; debt, 194. 
Churchill, Gen., 271. 
Cincinnati, Masonic delegates visit, 36: 

Commercial, The, 181; Fair, 364. 
Clark, Geo. I., 46, 114. 



Clark, Harvey, 20, 204; liis dead son, 

211; 285, 2S6; sketch of, 2S9. 
Clark, Mrs. Harvey, 4S5. 
Clark, Israel, 4. 
Clark, J., 90. 
Clark, John G., 89. 
Clark, Mrs. Ross, 470. 
Clark, Walter, 2:'3. 
Clason, Capt. M, 1!., killed, 388. 
Clay, Henry. 19, 25, 50. 
Clay, Gen. Green, with 1,000 Ken- 

tuckians in 1813, many perish, 13. 
Clear Creek, Fairfield Co., O., 8; 10, 

14. 
Clerk of the House, The, 109. 
Cleveland Sanitary Fair, 355. 
Clixby, James, 259. 
Clixby, Mrs. Ettie, 259. 
Cant well. Col., 195. 
Cockloft, The, 37. 
Coffee, domestic, many using, 257. 
Coffin, Levi, 321. 
Cold Friday, 120. 
Collector of internal revenue, 27. 
Collins, Col. Daniel, 7, 17, 455. 
Columbus, his first voyage, 131. 
Columbus people related to Mrs. Gar- 
rett, 43; lawyers. The, 95; Ohio, 
many rebel prisoners near, Columbus 
ladies, 198; Ohio, indexing county 
records, 201. 
Comet, A splendid, 136. 
Commercial. The Cincinnati, 141; re- 
lations, 425. 
Commissioner of Insolvent Debtors, 27, 

28. 
Commissioners, The, 27. 
Common schools, 34. 
Common Pleas Judges, 27. 
Communication, extremely libelous, 108. 
Como, the lake of, 387. 
Concert, .\n Old Folks, 394, 435; 437. 
Concklin, II. C. , 479. 
Concklin, Isaac, 235. 
Concklin, Mrs. Sophia S., 189. 
Concklin Stock Farm, 189. 
Concklin, W. W. , 90; county auditor, 

92: 189. 
Cone, David ()., a volunteer, 163. 
Cone, William IL, 90. 
Conegochiege i\lanor. The. 1. 
Confederate government, — Mason and 
Slidell, commissioners of, 164; vessel, 
plot to capture, 165; Commissioners, 
Mason and Slidell, 169; scrip, 178; 
fleet near Memphis, demolished by 
Union fleet, 220; steamer Columbia 
captured through information given by 
J. H. Anderson, 248. 

512 



Index 



C'oni'erence, The Central Ohio, 4U5, 409. 

Congress, The U. S., 6; changed seat 
of government, !»: Tlie law of, 60, 
fii; meeting of, 12S: 13S; taxes sal- 
aries, 145; a bill before to punish 
with death, lS;i; International Sta- 
tistical, at Berlin, 32S. 

Ccnnelley, W'm. E., 75. 

Constitution, The, 110. 

Consuls. U. S. , in Europe, 435. 

Cr.nsumption, 44. 

Contagious diseases, 44. 

Contraband of war, 165; goods, 169. 

Contractors defraud government, 1S3. 

Convention, Democratic National, 402. 

Converse, Judge C. C. , 111. 

Cooper, Albert, lost health, died, 144. 

Cooper, Bert, musician, killed, 144. 

Cooper, Charles, lost an arm, 144. 

Cooper, Edward, was killed, 144. 

Cooper Post, G. A. R., 144. 

Coopers, The, sketch of, 144. 

Cooper's trade, The, 16. 

Copeland, Alice, 433. 

Copeland, Arthur, 4S4. 

Copeland, E. P., 2.39, .394, 433, 484. 

Copeland, Elijah, 484. 

Copeland, George, 484. 

Copeland, Guild, 484. 

Copeland, Howard, 484. 

Copeland, J. S. . sketch of, 4S4. 

Copeland, Mrs. Princess, 146, 171; 
sketch of, 239. 

Copeland's Grove, 391. 

Copenhagen, A delightful trip, 339; 340. 

Copperheads, 302, 431. 

Corbin, of Waldo, 176; 186. 

Corinth, 16. 

Corn, Marion, dead soldier, 204; 276, 
334. 

Corn and Boxwell, brought home dead, 
20G. 

Cornwallis, Lord, 3. 

Corwin, Moses B., 106, 113. 

Corwin, Thomas, governor of Ohio, 26; 
111, 447, 460; sketch of, 401; his let- 
ter, 4S7. 

Coulter, Capt. Samuel, of the 9Gth and 
many others from Marion, 240; died 
of wounds, sketch of, 261; 371. 

Council Bluffs, 32. 

Court, Joseph, 81. 

Court, The, proceedings of, upright in 
all respects, 107. 

Courthouse, The, equal to those in New 
England, 39. 

Courtroom, The, in Marion, 54. 

Course of Time, The, 51. 

Covert, Mrs. Eunice, sketch of, 399. 

33 



Coward, .\. 41. 

Cowards and traitors, excuses made, 

2:iS. 

Cowskin river. The, 44. 

Cox, S. S., sketch of, 412. 

Cox, (:ov. Jacob D., 319, 321; sketch 
of, 451. 

Cranberry marsh, 157. 

Crawford county, IS. 

Crawford, George, editor, 325: 432. 

Crawford's Monumetit, where Col. Craw- 
ford was put to death, 47. 

Crawford. Col. W'., burnt at the stake, 
42; inhumanly tortured, 47. 

Crawfordsville, 44, 47. 

Cresap, Capt. Michael, 3. 

Cricket, William, 4lHi. 

Crimean \N'ar, The, 1*1. 

Crimes, 99. 

Crisis, The, 70. 

Critchfield, Joshua, 4. 

Critchfield, L. J., 4; nominated Judge 
O. Bowen for supreme judge, 112. 

Crittenden, Gen. Geo. B., 1S3, 1S4. 

Crittenden, John J., 1S4. 

Cress, Geo. D., 92. 

Cumberland hospital, full of sick sol- 
diers, 177; 185; river fleet at Ft. 
Donelson, 273. 

Cummin, Maggie, 154. 

Cummin, Rebecca, married, 154; 155. 

Cummin, T. S., 273, 276. 

Currency, Our, 426. 

Curtin, Gov. A. G. , 319. 

Cutter, A. W., 90, 92. 

Czarina of Russia, 370. 

Dahlgren, Admiral J. A., 311. 

Dales, Rev. L. J., 307, 310, 392. 

Dallas, battle of, 386. 

Daniel, Eben, 60. 

Darke}', a favorite, was Black Bill, 5.3. 

Darlington, C. A., resigned his office, 

115; 477. 
Darlington, D. N., 23. 
Darlington, Miss, 477. 
Davenport, Iowa, 31; value of farms 

tiear in 1854, 31. 
Davidson, A. F., 89. 
Davidson, E. C, 89, 91. 
Davids, Mrs. Charlotte, 379. 
Davids, John E., 330, 379, 457. 
Davids, Phoebe W., 330. 
Davis, Mr., 147. 
Davis, Rev. A. A., 93. 
Davis, Doctor, the dentist, 303. 
Davis, Dr. B. W., 310; sketch of, 238. 
Davis, Buckeye, 4. 



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Index 



Davis, Jeff., his government, l"iS; 142, 

146, 287. 
Davis, Mrs. Jessie Myer, 334. 
Davis, Miss Minerva, 178. 
Davis, William Z., !J1 ; a volunteer, 163; 

238; Williams, and Godman, 258; 

son of Dr. Davis, 270; is sick, 271; 

276; sketch of, 334; :i3G. 
Dawson, Mrs. of Bellefontaine, 46. 
Day, Dallas, 491. 
Dayton, W. L., U. S. Minister at Paris, 

248. 
Deal Farm, 139, 153; ditching needed, 

172; 176. 
Dean, Julia, 37. 
Delano, Columbus, 389, 477. 
Delano, James, of New Bedford, 144; 

481. 
Delaware county, 18; Reserve, 9 miles 

north of Marion, 41; Reservation, 5; 

Reservation, in Kansas, 42. 
Democracy, The, carried the election, 

255. 
Democrats, The loyal, 154; a few 

months later volunteered, 237. 
Democrat . volunteers numerous, 332; 

party, The, 109. 
Denison, Luther, married, 158; 161, 

273, 276. 
Denmark, king of, his successor, a 

sketch, 340; make war on, 352; min- 
ister of foreign affairs, 380; returns 

carbines, 381. 
Dennison, (jov., is unpopular, 134; his 

appointments, 181. 
Department of State, 130; informs J. 

H. Anderson of capture of steamer 

Columbia, and refers to the part he 

took, 248; ministers and consuls, 332. 
Depuy, Col. H. G., 146, 1.51. 
Deshler, David W., 30. 
Deshler, William (;., .'iO. 
Destruction of Jerusalem, The, 51. 
Detroit surrendered to the British, 13; 

as a stock market, 23; 454. 
Devens, Col., routed at Ball's Bluff. 

158. 
iieWitt, Isaac, 81. 
DeWolfe, Simon E., sketch of, 207; 

.364; sketch of, .374. 
DeWolfe, Mrs. Susan, .364. 
Dickerson, T. H., 155, 291. 
Dickerson, Mrs. Eliza, 129; a great joke 

on, 208; 220, 284, 342. 
Diebolt, Mr., 207. 
Disciples of Christ, The, 21, 193. 
Discussion, The right of free, 90. 
Disloyalty, 149. 
Dispatches, diplomatic, 183. 



Dombaugh, Pliilip, clerk of courts, 28; 

149. 
Dominion, The Old, 6. 
Donelson, Prof. P. S., 434. 
Doty, E., 23. 
Doty, Peter, 92. 
Douglas, Frances J., 157. 
Douglas, George W., 157. 
Douglas, James B., 157. 
Douglas, Margaret, daughter of R. L. 

Douglas, 157. 
Douglas, Robert L. , sketch of, 157; 

289. 
Draft, Tlie, again put off, 242; 311, 40S. 
Drake, Daniel S., 157, 194, 207, 2*9. 
Drake F'amily, The. sketch of, 157. 
Drake, Margaret L. , 157; sketch of, 

289. 
Drake, Thos. E. , 288. 
Drake, Judge W. S., soldier in war of 

'12, 157; 289. 
Dream, I had a, 171. 

Driver, Francis, a Wyandot Indian, 46. 
Driver, Miss Sallie, beautiful Indian 

girl, 42. 
Drouth, The great, 255. 
Drover, turns robber, 23. 
Dudley, Morris, 93. 
Dumble and the printers volunteered, 

23<). 
Dumble, John, his brick yard, 60; sketch 

of, 213. 
Dumble, J. B., 476. 

Dumble, S. R., a sketch of, 256; 334. 
Dumble, W. P., 133, 134, 159; editor, 

186; and S. R., 270. 
Dunlap, Mrs., 145, 146, 171, 184. 
Dunlap. Rev. John A., 184. 
Dunlap, John J., 184, 273, 374. 
Dunlevy, Andrew, 119. 
Dunlevy, Anthony, 119. 
Dunlevy, Daniel, 119, 120, 121. 
Dunlevy. Hannah Rabb, 121). 
Dunlevy, James, father of Mrs. T. J. 

Anderson, 119; his will, 120; his 

fortune, 122. 
Dunlevy, John, 119, 120. 
Dunlevy, Mary, 120. 
Dunlevy, ^Irs. Mary Barton, a widow, 

119. 
Dunlevy, Morris, 119; his will, 120. 
Dunlevy, Nancy, IS, 33, 119. 
Dunlevy Family, 120, 121, 448. 
Dunmore, Lord, 3. 

Dunmore's Expedition to Chillicothe, 3. 
Dunt, Robert, 176. 
Durfee, Col. B. R., 133; and wife in 

camp, 145; 155 161, 162, 175, 179; 

ordered to seat of war, 185; 199; 



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resigned his commission, 215; 259, 

273, 274, 27G, 478. 
Durfee, Mrs. B. R.. 199, 200. 
Durfee, Edward, 273, 276. 
Durfee, Gardner, 90, 92. 
Durfee, George, died, 273; his funeral, 

275; 334. 
Durfee, Libbie, 171, 476. 
Durfee, Joseph, sheriff, 57; 90, 91, 92, 

112, 171, 476. 
Durfee, Mrs. Joseph, 175. 
Durfee, Joseph, Jr., 175. 
Durfee's Exchange Bank, 326. 
Durham, Earl of, 429. 
Durkee, Caroline, 483. 
Durkee, Dr. Silas, sketch of, 4S3. 
Dwellings of the pioneers. The, 13. 
Dye, Tom. 196, 426, 452. 

Eagle, Thomas, 4. 

Eagle, William, 4. 

Eastman, Capt. E. G., his scheme to 
capture a Confederate vessel, 165; a 
fortune as a prize, 166; 167, 168. 

Eastman, Mrs. Jennie H., very hand- 
some, 107. 

Elder, Ann D., 152. 

Elder, Margaret, 152. 

Elder, John, 90, 152. 

Elder, Mrs. John, 152, 185. 

Elders, The, sketch of, 152. 

Election of President, the first, 9; day 
Oct. 14, 1862; stores closed, 424. 

Ellet, Col. Charles, inventor of steam 
ram, dies of wounds, 220. 

Elliott, Rev. Charles, missionary, 45. 

Elliot, Thomas, 120. 

Ellsworth, Col., shot dead, 12S. 

Emancipation proclamation. The, 50. 

Emerson, Mrs. George T. , 379. 

Emigration, 254. 

p-mory's wife killed, 144. 

Emory, Mr., sketch of, 432. 

England is friendly, 105. 

England's doctrine, "search and seiz- 
ure." 170. 

English people. The, who settled Clari- 
don township, 87. 

Epler, David, sheriff, 28; 186, 322. 

Erie, Pa., 6. 

Etheridge, Emerson, elected clerk, 138. 

Eugenia, The, Confederate vessel, 166. 

European artists, 376. 

Europeans, no derangement of business, 
337. 

Evans, Miss Eva, 413. 

Evening Post, The, 69; Star, The, 69. 

Ewing, Gen. Thomas, 10. 



Ewing, Hon. Thomas, 7; sketch of, 

417; 425. 
Ewings, The, of Ft. Wayne, 24. 
Exposition, Centennial, 137. 

Fahey, Timothy, sketch, 322; 457. 

Fahs, William F., 353, 492, 494. 

Fair Grounds, 477. 

Fair, Tlie great sanitary at Cincinnati, 
sketch of, 341. 

Fairfax, Lord, 17, 455. 

Fairfield county, 19. 

Fallen Timbers, battle of, 5. 

Farragut, Admiral, passage up the Mis- 
sissippi, 209. 

Fast-day, National, 151. 

Faulkner. Charles James, 3; minister 
to France, 147. 

Fay, Hon. Theo. .S., author and diplo- 
matist, 2.';i4. 

Federal Constitution, The, 9. 

Felton, Rev. Erastus, 20. 

Ferris, Dr. ()., 295. 

Fessenden, W. P., .390. 

F'ield, Mrs., 494. 

Fienbaugh. D., 92. 

Fifth Auditor, 44l:(. 

Fighting cock, his favorite, 78. 

Finley, Rev. J. P.., missionary, 45. 

Fish, Mrs. Hamilton, of New York, .361. 

Fisher, Dr. T. B., 90, 92, 182, 193. 349, 
395, 488. 

Fisher, Mrs. Dr. T. B., 1.36, 293. 

PTsher, William. 71, 75, 90, 92, 94. 

Fisher, W. B., 1S2. 

Fisher, Z. T. , 90. 

Fisher's Hill, battle of, 414. 

Fish story. A, 341. 

Files, The, father and son, 342. 

Fletcher, Mrs. Katherine Y., 470, 494. 

Fletchers, The, of Indianapolis, 309. 

Flood, George H., diplomatic appoint- 
ment. 104; 106, 113. 

Flora, Mrs. Cora G., .356. 

Flower-stand, The crowning attraction, 

220; The, 221. 

Flowers, Miss Minerva A., 116. 

Floyd, John B., sketch of, 301. 

Folk, Henry, 295. 

Food of the pioneers, 13. 

Ford's Theatre, Lincoln assassinated, 
44.5. 

Forrest and Wheeler, besiege Ft. Don- 
el son, 273. 

Fort at Bellville, Va., 33; Cumberland, 
2, 5: Dearborn (Chicago), garrison 
massacred by Indians, 13; Donelson, 
ISS; gunboats and troops besieging, 
189; a great battle at, 191; 192; 273; 



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Duquesne, 2; Ferree, at Upper San- 
dusky, 5; Fisher, capture of, 440; 
Hatteras, and Fort Clark taken, 148; 
Henry, captured, 188; 191; Leaven- 
worth, 114; Maiden, Canada, 4. 

Forts captured, 441. 

Fowler pedigree and coat-of-arms, 365. 

Fowler, C. R., biographical sketch, 314; 
365, 396, 463. 

Fowler, Daniel W., 314. 

Fowler, Dwight, son of C. R. Fowler, 
314. 

Fowler, F. F., 258, 364; biographical 
sketch, 365; why he failed, 452; 460, 
463. 

Fowler, Mrs. F. F., 217, 252, 389. 

Fowler, Miss Jennie M., 427. 

Fowler, Scott, 396, 452. 

Fowler, Dr. Stephen, sketch of, 314. 

Fowler, Capt. William, 314. 

Franking privilege, 138. 

Franklin, battle of, 430. 

Franklin, Benj., works of, 51. 

Frayser's Farm, The battle of, 333. 

Fredericksburg, The battle of, a 
cription of, 258. 

Free schools, 35. 

Fremont, Gen. John Charles, 25, 
• his competency, sketch of, 159; 
226 , ;'9 >. 

French, The, 2. 

Fribley, Carrie, 3S2. 

Fribley, Mrs. H. C, 146, 189, 274, 318, 
.?24, 352, 353; her little daughter, 355; 
86Cf, 378, 404, 407. 

Fribley, Jacob, 374, 479. 

Fribley, Wesley, died in camp at ]\Iem- 
phis, 261; 276, 334. 

Frost, Mrs. A. M., 474. 

Frontispiece, portrait of Judge Thomas 
J. Anderson. 

Fruit destroyed by frost, 135. 

Fruits, never so abundant, 231. 

Fry, Frank, 179. 

Fry, Rev. H. P.., sketch of, 
185; hit by a bullet, 214 
ment, 307; 394. 

Fry, Mrs. TI. B., 179, 4,34. 

Fugitive at Marion, The, 109; 



de- 



152; 

198, 



178: 



Bill, 



ISl, 
state- 



Ohio law of 1839, 100; slave, 
87; Slave Law, The, 50. 
Fur trade. The, 134. 



The, 
The, 



Gailey 


Dr. C. 


P., 


239. 








Gailey 


Dr. J. 


D., 


father o 


Dr. 


C. 


P. 


Gailey, 239. 












Gailey, 


Mrs. E 


r. J. 


D., 158, 


200; 


sketch 


of. 


239. 












Gaines 


Mills, 


The 


battle of, 


333. 







Galloway, Samuel, 26. 

Galveston, Texas, 120. 

Garberson, John R. , clerk of the courts, 
27 ; 493. 

Gardner, Capt. Andrew, 289. 

Gardner, Gen. I. S., 289. 

Garnet, Gen. Robert S., killed, 151. 

Garrett, George, 42. 

Garrett, Joel W. , an Indian, husband 
of Eliza Jane Ayres, 43. 

Garrett, Mrs. Nancy, 42. 

Garrett, Lieut. William, 288. 

Garrett, William, 403. 

Garrison, The British, 23. 

Gas, Marion lighted, 156. 

Gavitt, Rev. E. C. , missionary, 45. 

Geiger, Charlotte, 196. 

Geiger, George, sketch of, his brick 
block, 196. 

Geiger, John W., 196. 

Geiger, Mary A., 196. 

Geiger, Sarah E., 196, 212. 

Geiger, Robert W. , Gen. Southern agent 
Penn. Railway Co., 196. 

German language. The, 16; ofificer ap- 
pointed, recommended by Consul An- 
derson, 158; war. The, against Den- 
mark, 368. 

Germania, The, 466. 

Germans, The, 87, 154, 364, 450. 

Gettysburg, battle of, description of, 
290; 291, 295. 

Gibson, Gen. W. H., sketch of, 307; 
312. 

Gillett, Joseph, 4. 

Gillett, AL FL, biographical sketch, 324; 
.325, 406. 

Gillette, Miss Carrie M., 351. 

Gilmore, Gen. O. A., biographical 
sketch, 305; 311. 

Gilruth, Christiana, 32, .305. 

Gilruth, Harriet, 31. 

Gilrulh, Rev. James, 31, 32; sketch of, 
3:i; missionary, 45; 121, 305; his let- 
ter to J. H. Anderson, 306. 

Gilruth, James H., 305. 

Gilruth, Mrs. Marion Ingles, of Scot- 
land, 33. 

Gilruth, Mrs. Mary, 32, 305. 

Gilruth, Matilda, 305. 

Gilruth, Naomi, 305. 

Gilruth, Pauline, 32, 305. 

Gilruth, Thomas, of Scotland, a famous 
hunter, 33. 

Gilruth, Thomas W., 32, 305. 

Girard, Stephen, 388. 
God has a controversy with us, 335. 
Godeffroy, Adolph, President Steamship- 
Company, 187. 



516 



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Godman, C. C, 145, 213. 

Godman, Mrs. C. C, 344. 

Godman, H. C, 35, 200, 334; sketch 
of, 353; 432, 4S4. 

Godman, Mrs. H. C, 171, 344; sketch 
of, 356. 

Godman, J. C, 90, 92. 

Godman, Gen. .T. H., 35, 39, 55; mem- 
ber of the legislature, 106; 112, 126, 
127; promoted, 130; 133; at home 
on furlough, 146; 14S, 151, 154, 155; 
kicked by a horse, 204; 241, 242, 245; 
wounded at battle of Fredericksburg, 
258, 259, 269, 2S7, 321, 332; defeated 
for Congress, 336; 342, 344, 402, 432. 

Godman. Mrs. J. H., J55, 178, 200; 
Mrs. Col. .T. H., gave a party, 303; 
333, 344. 432, 434. 470. 

Godman, .T. M., 35; sketch of, 151; 
276; Anderson, 1. J., Jr., 292; 302, 
333, 334, 476. 

Godman, Mrs. .T. M.. 344, 4SS, 494. 

Godman, Mrs. Kate L. , 15;i; sketch of, 
334 ; 4>4. 

Godman. William, 21. 

Godman, Rev. W. D., 35; his sermon, 
126; 155; sketch of, letter from, 28S; 
289, 337, 434. 

Gold and silver scarce, ISfi. 

Gold and silver, 254. 

Gold. 408, 443, 449, 451. 

Golden Circle, The. Knights of, 140, 143, 
154; exposure of, 161. 

Goldsmith, Oliver, 51. 

Good breeding, 38. 

Gooding, W. R., 176. 

Gorton. H. , 03, 206, 395. 

(ioshorn, William F. , slave hunter, 54; 
65, OS, 73, SO. 

Gothamite, 477. 

Governor of Nebraska territory, pro- 
visional, 75; of Ohio, 104; The, has 
made another call for hospital com- 
forts, 205. 

Grand Army of the Republic, The, 243. 

Grand jury, The, 82, 83. 

Grafton, Capt. Bryant, 155, 156; sketch 
of, 349. 

Graham, Rev. John, shocking accident, 
368. 

Grant, Gen. U. S., 25, 188, 191, 192; 
at Shiloh, 204; 269, 282; surrender 
of Vicksburg, 294; President, 321; 
332. 

Gray, D. S., of Columbus, O., 213. 

Gray, Frazer, 4; a soldier of the Revo- 
lution, 91. 

Gray, George, Associate Judge, 54; 91. 



Grayeyes, Doctor, a Wyandot Indian, 
46. 

Grayeyes, Rev. Squire, a Wyandot In- 
dian, 46. 

Great Britain, 164; the queen of, 340. 

Great Sanitary Fair, The, 334. 

Greece, The king of, 340. 

Greely, Horace, 293. 

Greenbacks, 403. 

Greenville, treaty of, 5. 

Greenwood, Grace, 1S8. 

Griswold, S. A., first child born in Co- 
lumbus, 15S; 162. 

Griswold, Victor, inventor, 102. 

Gross, Dr. E. F., 134. 

Grow, Galusha A., elected speaker, 138. 

Gruber, Christ., very sick, 184. 

Gruber, John, died, 2')3. 

Guerrillas, 431. 

Gurley. W. M.. has enlisted, 135; sketch 
of, 37S. 

Gurley, Rev. L. B., an eloquent ser- 
mon, sketch of his life, 227; 2S6, 
310, 378. 

Gurley. L. B., Jr., 379. 

Gurley John, his vineyard, 152; 339, 
395, 451. 

Gurley, Mrs. John, entertainment, 151; 
153, 285, 341. 

Guthcry, John D., 149. 

Hachmann. Gerhard, secretary, 2S2. 

Haggerty, .Tohn, 455. 

Haldeman, Jacob, 23. 

Haldeman, Col. J. S., U. S. Minister 
at Stockholm. 418; arrested, note 
from, 419; 420: note from, 421; 422, 
423. 

Haldeman. Hon. R. J., 422. 

Halderman's Mill, 322. 

Hall, Thomas, 23. 

Halleck, Gen., 192; the battle of Cor- 
inth, 214. 

Hamburg, 116; -American Steamship 
Co., 187; Consular position, 449; 
family at, 187; pleasant situation, 133; 
the fourth commercial city, 265; peo- 
ple, their liberality, 362; The Inter- 
national Agricultural Exhibition, 262, 
268, 278, 281, 299, 308. 

Hammerle, John K., 336, 338; sketch 
of, 340; will visit Germany, 342; 380, 
o81, 384, 385. 

Hampshire county, \'a., 2, 7, 17, 142. 

Handbill, The, SS; Freedom of speech, 
S9. 

Hain, Adam, 295. 

Hain, Henry, 27, 115. 



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Hains, L. C, 27, 463. 

Hane, J. J., married, 123; the cashier, 

his wife died of typhoid fever, 259; 

293, 374. 
Hanseatic Minister's note to Secretary 

of State about Great Exhibition, 268. 
Hard cider, The, 111. 
Harding, Col., commanding Ft. Donel- 

son, 273. 
Harding, Gov. Warren G. , 273. 
Harding, Mrs. Warren G., 273. 
Hardee, Gen. W. J., at Shiloh, 204; 

436. 
Hardy, Capt. E., 192; a pioneer, bio- 
graphical sketch, 257; 322, 367, 457. 
Hardy, John, 149, 157, 468. 
Hardy, Maj. William M., 89, 192. 
Harney, Gen., at St. Louis, 128. 
Harper, Ellen M., 299, 389. 
Harper, James, hand shot off, 171; 175; 

sketch of, 476. 
Harper, John L., sketch, 294, 
Harper's Ferry, Va., 16. 
Harpster, David, biographical sketch, 

365; 366, 403, 408, 410, 433, 450, 459, 

465. 
Harris, Stephen R., 273. 
Harris, Bishop William L., 35; sketch 

of, 406. 
Harrison campaign songs, 11. 
Harrison, President Benj., 293. 
Harrison and Tyler, 29, 92; imperil the 

chances of, 110; elected in 1840, 111. 
Harrison, Gen. W. H., 4; at Fort 

Meigs, speech of, 10; 13, 25, 2'-', 30; 

on the road to Ft. Meigs in 1840, 

41; 111. 
Harshbarger, Jacob K. , 374. 
Hart, Rev. Sam., 410. 
Harvey, Henderson, 176. 
Harvey, Thomas, 172; died of typhoid, 

173. 
Harvey, W. F., 168; has typhoid fever, 

172; 173, 176; sheriff-elect is dead, 

177 ; 186. 
Hat factory. A, 24. 
Hat, John, a Wyandot Indian, 46. 
Havens, Mrs. Bellona, 483. 
Hayes, Naomi Gilruth, 32. 
Hayes, Sylvester R., 32. 
Hedges, Benson, 410. 
Hedges, Henry C., sketch of, 482. 
Hedges, Josiah, 354, 365, 392. 
Hedges,' Mrs. Lucretia, sketch of, 482. 
Hedges, S. B., sketch of, 410. 
Hedges, Wesley, 176, 196, 357, 406. 
Hedges, W. C., 354. 
Heffner, Mrs., the gunsmith's wife, 170. 



Heidelberg, 413. 

Heller, Rev. J. M., 157, 211. 

Henderson, T. , 93. 

Henderson, Thomas B., 106, 113. 

Henshaw, Agnes Anderson, 2, 467. 

Henshaw, Anderson, 464, 467. 

Henshaw, Hiram, 467. 

Henshaw, Levi, 467. 

Henshaw, Stephen, 467. 

Henshaw, Miss V. V., 3, 454. 

Henshaw, Capt. William, 2; sketch of, 

464; his family, 467. 
Henshaw, Uriah, 467. 
Hickman, John, 176. 
Hicks, Francis A., 46. 
Hicks, John, Jr., 46. 
Hicks, John, Sr. , 46. 
High schools, 35. 
Highlands, The, 1. 
Hillman, Mr., 20. 
Hillman, Sarah, 20. 
Hills, Chauncey A., 373. 
Hinkle, Rev. Moses, missionary, 45. 
Hinkson, B., Secretary of State, 26. 
Hinsdale, Prof. B. A., 35. 
Historical Society of Kansas, 114; of 

W'isconsin, 96. 
History of Dunlevy Family, 121. 
Hoadly, CJeorge, vice president, report 

of, 341. 
Hodder, T. H., 216, 294; sketch of, 296; 

348. 
Hoffman, E. F., 276. 
Hogue, J. M., 3S4, 401. 
Holdridge, H. H., 393. 
llollisters, The, of Buffalo, 24. 
Holmes, Alexander, with EBer Baker, 

laid out Marion, 18. 
Holmes, Nancy A., 143, 144. 
Holmes, Samuel, pioneer surveyor, 144. 
Holmes, Roland, 212. 
Home associations, 152. 
Home for Aged Women, 230. 
Home Guards, 136; receive orders, 372; 

373. 
Hood, John, 140, 149, 152, 172, 17-!, 374. 
Hood, Gen. J. B., 430, 434. 
Hood, Mrs. John, 171; saw 800 rebel 

prisoners, 198; and others, tender 

congratulations, 208. 
Hood, Walter L., 171; skull fractured, 

became insane, 172. 
Hooper, Rev. Jacob, missionary, 45. 
Hopkins, Mrs. Efifie Fry, 179. 
Hopkins, Stephen, the signer of the 

Declaration of Independence, 112. 
Hord, Peyton, 128, 143, 177; the 4th of 

July in Ilord's Grove, estimable fam- 



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ily, good time, 227; bought 68 cattle 
of Ren. Waddell, 229: 295; sketch of, 
403. 

Hospitality of pioneers, S; 13. 

Hot Springs, 120. 

House of Representatives, 9G. 

House, Allen, 457. 

House Family, The, of Mt. Gilead, 397. 

House, Katherine, sketch of, 476. 

House, John, 7. 

House, Priscilla, 7, 458. 

House, Ruth Metcalf, 7. 

Howard, Ed., 37. 

Hubbard, M. I., 321. 

Hubbell, James R., 391, 409. 

Hudson Bay Company, The, 76. 

Hull's surrender, sentence to death, 13. 

Humboldt, Baron von, joke on Bayard 
Taylor, 202. 

Hume, A. C. , 474. 

Hume, J. F., sketch of, 474. 

Hume, J. H., 474. 

Humphrey, Mr., 334. 

Humphrey, Mrs. C. F., 400. 

Humphrey, D. J., 374. 

Humphrey, Joseph F. , 400. 

Humphrey, Mrs. J. F. , sketch of, 400. 

Humphrej', Lyman U., governor of 
Kansas, 114. 

Humphrey, R. G. , 400. 

Hunting and fishing in Virginia, 15. 

Huse, Capt. Caleb, C. S. A., his cap- 
tured letter published, 222; the rebel 
agent, sells ten BaUeries to an Eng- 
lishman, 223; his letter to the rebel 
government, 224, 225. 

Hutchinson, Bessie A., 365. 

Hutchinson, H. F. , 365. 

Hutchinson, Mabel C, 365. 

Hutchinson, T. H., 365. 

PFutchison, William, 90; a volunteer, 
163. 

Hunter, D., 447. 

Hunter, H. H., 287. 

Hunter, W. , acting Secretary of State, 

423 ; 448. 
Hunter, William H., .397. 
Hyde, Andrew, 4. 
Illustrations, 1, 116, 117, 119, 131, 139, 

140, 199. 441, 4J4, 492, 494. 
Impeachment, articles of, 8o. 

Inauguration of our first President, 9; 
of President, 428. 

Independence Day, 475. 

Indian Reservation, The Wyandot, size 
of, when ceded, 44; Summer, 153, 
154; treaties, ceding Ohio land, 5; 



Territory, The, 42, 114. 

Indiana soldiers, 142. 

Indians in Marion, 44; The Christian, 
76; The Delaware, treaty with, 41; 
42, 44, 75; and Wyandots, talk of 
Crawford's death, 47; hostile, War 
of "12. 12; Western, 5. 

Indictments found against the Virgin- 
ians, IV2, 

Information in circular letter of J. H. 
Anderson, concerning emigration, 
254. 

Insane hospital, at Ossawatomie, 189. 

Insurgent privateers in foreign ports, 
243. 

Iowa City, 32. 

Irey, Enos, 91. 

Irey, John, 4; a Revolutionary soldier, 
served under Lafayette, 91. 

Irey, Samuel, 91. 

Ireys, The, sketches of, 91. 

Irish, The, 87, 154; rebels, surren- 
dered by Hamburg, 109; Coast, The, 
131; and W'elsh coasts. The, 133. 

Irving. \\'ashington, 221. 

Irwin, William, 81. 

Island Xo. i:, and .Memphis, 211; cap- 
tured O.ni'O prisoners, 2 4. 

Jackson men. of Tenn., 30. 

Jsckson, who killed Col. Ellsworth. 128. 

Jackson. Sionewall, 197; defeated at 

Wincliesttr, 2iT; mortally wounded, 

2<1. 
Jacob's Lite of Crcsap, 3; well. 41. 
Jacoby, M.. 295. 

Jacques, Henry, a Wyandot Indian. 46. 
Jail, The filthy, 85. 
James. Prince, son of James II, 1. 
James, Walter, 276, .■«4 ; is dead. .33.5. 
Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 10, 12. 
Jeffersonian ideas, 16. 
Jennie P-astman, The. 168. 
Jerolaman, Capt. Nicholas, 179. 
Jews and Infidels, 21. 
Johnson, Alice, Julia, sketch of, 322. 
Johnson, .Vndrew, his Union speech, 

1H3; 425; his election, 42S; a guard 

of soldiers, 446; President, 447; 465. 
Johnson, Ann Eliza, 275. 
Johnson, Gen. B. R., 192. 
Johnson, Hannah K., 121. 
Johnson, Katherine E. , 1S2. 
Johnson, O. J., is sick, 206; 322. 
Johnson, Orange, father of Mrs. F. C. 

Sessions, 239; 394. 
Johnson, R. H., sketch of his life, 182; 

184, 199, 257. 



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ex 



Johnson, Sarah H., 141; iMrs., 1S2. 

Johnson, Thomas, 121, 122. 

Johnson and Uhler, 190, 274. . 

Johnson, William, 400. 

Johnson, W. C, S9. 

Johnson, Dr. VV. C, sketch of, Si'T. 

Johnston, Gen. Albert Sidney, 204; was 
killed at Shiloh, 206. 

Johnston, Genevra, 413. 

Johnston, J. C, 207, 2S8, 374, 433. 

Johnston, Gen. J. E., 142, 148, 304. 

Jones, Helen R., 178. 

Journal of the House, the appendix, 
1839-40, 109; The Ohio State, G4. 

Journey in 1858, 36. 

Judges, The, 102. 

Judgment of the Court, The, 115. 

Judiciary Committee of the House, re- 
port of, 104; 105; did not wish to 
call any witnesses, 107; duplicity of 
the members, 108; The, 109. 

Jury, The, could not agree on a ver- 
dict, 102. 

Justice, John, 354. 

Justice of the I'eace, 27, 

Kanawha, Va., the home of Black Bill, 
5^ 69, 74. 

Kansas City, 42. 

Kansas territory, Sam. Medary, gover- 
nor, 70. 

Keifer, J. Warren, 412. 

Kelley, Miss G. D. , 120. 

Kelly, Joseph J., 465, 466. 

Kendrick, W. L., 90, 92. 

Kenesaw Mountain, battle of, 388; 393. 

Kennedy, Gen. R. P., 289. 

Kennedy's Hotel, 194. 

Kenton. 472. 

Kerr, Robert, sketch of his Hfe, 333; 
449. ' 

Kidnapping party. The, 65. 

Kilbourne, Col. James, 18. 

Kilhourne, Hon. James, founder of 
Claridon, 18. 

Kimball, E. , ;K), 92. 

King of liavaria, presents several cases 
of arms to our government, 260. 

King, Henry, 277. 

King, George, 81; sketch of, 259. 

King, James, justice of the peace, died 
of typhoid fever, biographical sketch, 
259. 

King, Robert, 90, 378. 

King, Samuel, 259. 

Kingston, Ohio, Presbyterian semin- 
ary, ;J2. 



Kinkel, released by Carl Schurz, 138. 
Kinnear, Rev. Andrew, 20, 21. 
Kitelinger, John, a corpse, 181. 
Kline, y]v., slave hunter, 54; 68, 69, 

80. 
Kling. A. H., sketch of, 273; 276, 293, 

457. 
Kling^ Mrs. Amos H., 146. 
Knapp, John R., sketch of, 356. 
Knapp, J. R. , Jr., 261, 350; sketch of, 

4';9. 
Knapp, Russell, 356. 
Knobley Mountain, 2, 12, 454, 455. 
Knoxville, battle of, an account of, 

Kraner, .\ugust, 196. 

Kraner. John, 136, 463. 

Kraner, John E. , 134, 207; sketch of 

his wife, who died of typhoid fever, 

256. 
Kroft, John. 164. 

Laboring classes. The, 255. 

Labor-saving machinery, 264. 

Ladies of Marion, 205; in picturesque 
conveyances, 312; of Columbus, 205; 
of cur committee. The, a gift from, 
363. 

Lady killed by disloyal rowdies, 302. 

Lancaster, r)hio, 7, 10. 

Land office at Delaware, O., in 1820, IS. 

Landon, James, 4. 

Lands, a buyer of wild, 24. 

Languages, foreign, will learn, 221. 

Last of the Mohicans, The, 51. 

Laurell Hill, The battle of, 141. 

Law Department of Cincinnati College, 
112. 

Lawrence, Mr., slave hunter, 54. 

Lawrence, Judge W'illiam, 27, 28; sketch 
of, 1S4: 206, 282. 

Laws, passed by the legislature and 
congress, 51. 

Leatherberry, N. ?iL, 72, 73, 80, 192; 
traded his farm, 195. 

Lecompton Constilutmnal Convention, 
The, 76. 

Lee, Gen. Robert E., 291, 292, 441. 

Lee's surrender, 1(4; History of Co- 
lumbus, 1!)8. 

Legislature, The. act of, 35; The, 85, 
104; members of, J:i9; was demo- 
cratic, no. 

Leipsic, A great fur market, 157. 

Leonard, John E. , 154, 457. 

Leonard, Mrs. Maggie, 331. 

Letters destroyed, 29. 



520 



Ind 



ex 



Levering, Griffith, GO. 

Lewis, John, 58, 54, 5G, C2, 65, (!G, G7; 
owner of slave, 97. 

Lewis, W. B., sherilif, 27; 200. 

Libby Prison, 295, 323. 

Liberia, first white woman to visit, ISS. 

Lighter with rebel cannon aboard, stink, 
223. 

Likeness of the eliiUlren. Ml. 

Lima soldiers: At the battle of Shiloli, 
205. 

Lincoln, Abraham. 19; his famous mes- 
sage, 21; 25, 111, 14S, 128, 159; ap- 
■ pointed Carl Schurz, 187; and cabi- 
net — the admiration of the world, 
214; his message to Congress about 
the Hamburg Fair, 200, 267: Presi- 
dent and cabinet, 309; 319; a call 
for more troops, 32 j; 332; Presi- 
dent, call for SCO, (01 more volunteers, 
334; 349; re-election of, 354; 377, 
389, 390, 393, 409, 425, 428; election, 
cheer followed cheer, 430; assassin- 
ated, 445; his assassin, 446, 447; his 
portrait, 139, 290. 

Lincoln. Mrs. .\braham . her condition 
serious, 44.8. 

Lindner and Stern, a sketch of their 
claim on Denmark. 330; 381. 

Lindsay, Joseph, 336. 

Lindsey, J. H.. 460. 

Linn. Daniel, 161. 

IJnn. Mary Ann Ceiger. known as 
"Major" Linn., sketch of, 161. 

Little Chief, a Wyandot Indian, 46. 

Little Sandusky, Indian treaty at, 41; 
44. 

Little Thunder, a Wyandot Indian, 46. 

Liverpool, 131; The docks of, 133. 

Livingston. Dr. J.. 397. 

Lodge, Masonic, :'.6; Grand Masonic, 
36. 37; Live Oak. tribute of respect, 
491. 

Log cabin and hard cider campaign, 11. 

Log cabin. The, 111. 

Logan, Eliza, actress, 37. 

London, 132; and Hamburg papers, 134; 
American, The, 1S4; 194; The Great 
International Exhibition, 264; Times, 
The. 4.5S. 

Long, Trwin P., a Wyandot Indian, 46. 

Longstreet, Gen., and Gen. Hill, 292; 
332. 

Loomis, Mrs. E. L. W., 79, 4S3. 

Loomis, John C. , 79, 4S3. 

Loomis, Mary, 79, 483. 

Love, Rev. X. 1!. C. , his portrait of 
Stewart, 45. 



Lovejoy, John E. , U. S. Consul at 

Callao, 250. 
Lovelace, Eleanor, an Indian captive, 

sketch of, 483. 
Loyal Legion, The, 243. 
Lucas, IT. S., 394. 
Lucas, Robert, 25; governor of Ohio, 

20. 
f.ntifer, .\s proud as, 42. 
l,timp-on-l he-head, Jo. and Lewis, 46; 

educated in Marion, 47. 
Lutz, Elizabeth F. . 1'4. 
Lutz, Isaac, 14. 
Lutz, Jacob, 14. 
Lutz, John D., 14. 
Lutz, .Michael, 14. 
Lutz, Hon. Samuel, over 100 years old, 

14. 
Lutz, ririch. 14. 
Lyceum. The Marion. 39, 89, 90. 
Lytle, Gen. \\'illiani H., biogra[)hical 

sketch, .314. 
Lyon, Gen. Nathaniel, killed, 146, 185. 

Madisori, James, 10. 

Madison, President, 13. 

Madisonian, The, 29. 

Madrid, residence in, 187. 

Magrnder. T. J., 196. 

Mails not transmitted, 429. 

Major, a dashing, 181. 

Malaria, 4, S. 

Malloy, James, 37. 

Malvern Hill. The battle of, 333. 

Manassas, battle of, 140, 162, 237, 238. 

Mann, C. I!.. SSJ, 170, 192, 195. 

Mann. The old Cy. Mann tavern, 322. 

Marion, ()., when laid out, IS; popula- 
tion of, in 1839, 39: in 1825, 41; The 
main street, 5 1; The people of, 57; 
The feeling in, 86; is lighted with 
gas. 190; a great Union meeting in, 
312; its population and growth, 464; 
477. 493. 

Afarion Academy, The, 34, 143, 366. 

Marion county, when organized, IS; 
rich and productive, 20; history of, 
33; 40; the offices changed hands, 87. 

Marion, Gen. Francis of the Revolu- 
tion, 18. 

Marion riot. The, 39, 41, 53; The aboli- 
tion riot at, 64; The mob at, 65; 71, 
73, 77. 79, no. 

Marion \'isitor. The, account of the 
riot, 60; 62, 64, 65, 66, 69, 71. 

Marion, Bank of, sound, 186. 

Marion Independent, 432. 

Marion Lodge, 28; proceedings of, 491. 



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Marion Unionist, The, suspended, 270. 

Market prices, 197; everything dear, 
257; 371, 398, 402, 42S, 437. 

Marseilles, 44. 

]\larshall House, at Alexandria, 128. 

Marshall, Mrs. Jane tJ., a widow, mar- 
ried Capt. E. Hardy, a biographical 
sketch, 257. 

Martin, Christian, 149; death of. Ma- 
sonic funeral, 162. 

Martin, Fred, 149. 

Martin, Stuff, 149. 

Martin, Capt. Wilson, 240. 

Martinsburg, History of, 3. 

Maryland plantation. 2; estates, 17. 

Mason, J. M., Confederate commis- 
sioner, 164; about Mason and Slidell 
as Confederate commissioners to Eng- 
land and France, 203. 

Mason and Slidell, 173. 

Mason-Slidell imbroglio, 170. 

Masonic delegates,, .Tudge liartram and 
Judge Anderson, .'je; Lodge in Upper 
Sandusky, 42. 

Masons, The, at Davenport, 32; The, 
their kindness when T. J. Anderson 
died, 118; of Marion, The, 492. 

Master Commissioner, 27; T. J. An- 
derson, sells property, 186. 

Mather, Rev. Geo., 418; sketch of, 425; 
431. 

Matthews, Rev. A. D., sketch of, 438. 

Matthews, Mrs. Jane E., 438. 

Ma.ximilian, the emperor, put to death, 
354; his death, biographical sketch, 
369; 370, 450, 451. 

Maxse, Sir. H. B. F., sketch of, 416; 
417. 

Mayflower, The, 144. 

McCabe, Bishop C. C, sketch of, 323. 

McCable, Prof. L. D., 35, 323. 

McClain, Wesley, 460. 

McClanahan, Robert W. , slave hunter, 

54; 56, 57; "stop, Bill, or I'll shoot 
you," 59; 62. 64; "caught hold of 
the negro," 66; 08, 09, 73, 78, 80, 
97; arrested, 99; 101, 115. 

McClellan, Gen., fails to move, ISO; 
strictures on, 198; a fine address, 
199; at Yorktown, 210; in Dresden, 
220; relieved of command, 255; 403. 

McClernand, Gen.-, at Shiloh, 2U4. 

McClintock, Rev. John, 288. 

McClure, Mrs. Judge, of Little Rock, 43. 

McConnell, Dr. James, an excellent din- 
ner, pleasant time, 252. 

McConnell, Mrs. Margaretta Nelson, 
wife of Dr. James McConnell, 252. 



McConnell, Dr. and Mrs. R. N., 252'., 

McCook, Gen. A. M., 367. 

McCutchenville, 44. 

McDonald, Ann J., 408. 

McDonald, James R., his letter, 266;. 

U. S. Vice Consul, President Lin- 
coln's message, 267; 361, 439. 
McDowell, Gen., 148. 
McDowell, on Bull Pasture Mountain,. 

214. 
McElvey, Jane, 259. 
McFadden, Mary, 307. 
McFarland, Prof. R. VV., sketch of, 337. 
Mclntyre, Eliza M., 3S9. 
McTntire, John, proprietor of Zanes- 

ville, ()., 46. 
McKee, Miss Lutie, 47. 
McKee, John, 47. 
McKee, Mrs. Mollie Rappe, 47. 
McKee, Ralph, 47. 
McKee, R. R., banker, 47. 
McKelly, Hon. Robert, 76. 
McKelvy, John, 336. 

Mc Kinky, David, grandfather of Presi- 
dent McKinley, 119. 
McKinlty, William, the President, 119;; 

his letter, 408. 
McKinstrey, James, 93. 
McKinstrey, M., 93. 
McLean, Mrs. Donald, 369. 
McNeal, Alfred F., 60. 
McNeal, Allan, 93, 60. 
McNeal, Benjamin, 81. 
McNeal, Louis B., 60. 
McNeal, John F., 60. 
McNeals, The, sketch of, 60. 
McMillan, Dr. John, his classical 

school, 119. 
Meade, Gen. G. G., 291, 322. 
Mechanicsville, The battle of, 333. 
Medary, Samuel, 64. 
Medary, Gov. Samuel, sketch of, and' 

daughter, and granddaughter, 70; a 

printer, 70; 77, 78, 91. 
Meeting, Anti-abolition, 88; in Marion,. 

Feb. 8, 1840, 91. 
Meiley, Hiram, woutided, 163. 
Memorial, The, 96, 104; printed in the 

Ohio Statesman, 105; and its author, 

107. 
Memorialist. The, 106, 108. 
Merck, Baron Ernst von, 263; 278- 

president International Exhibition, 

299. 
Merck, Dr. C. H., 299; diplomatic note,. 

422; 423; His Excellency Syndicus,. 

272 : 279. 
Meredith, Col., his regiment,. 143. 



Index 



Merion, Nathaniel, warden O. P., 301. 

Merrill, Judge, 196. 

Merrill, Mrs. Judge, 218. 

Merriman, 'SI., of Bellefontaine, C)., 23. 

Messenger, Col. Everett, 72, 73, 112, 
295. 

Messenger, ("lertrude Turney, her death 
at sea, funeral, etc., ISS; yS. 

Messenger, Rev. M. H., missionary in 
Africa, li^S. 

Messenger, Xewton, 206. 

Metcalf, Judge B. F., 414. 

Metropolitan Fair of New York City, 
360; sketch of, .361. 

Mexico, Ohio soldiers invade, 1S46-7, 
23; The war with, 50. 

Middle Bass Island, 494. 

Miles, Gen. Nelson A., 461. 

Milksickness, 14, 19. 

Mill Creek, \'a., 2. 

Mill Springs, battle of, 1S3; won by 
Ohio regiment, 1S4. 

Miller, David, 304, 354, 430, 4S3. 

Miller, D. S., 136, 193, 2S0, 2SS, .343; 
sketch of. .340; 444., 460. 

Miller, Cleorge, 250, 238, 282. 

Miller, Miss Princess A., 116, 121. 

Miller, Rev. Robert, 400. 

Miller, Mrs. Sarah, 460. 

Jliller, William, 436, 460. 

Milligan. John, 120. 

Millikcn. William, of Marion, editor, 
194. 

Million of dollars raised, 363. 

Jlills, Rebecca Ann, 322. 

Mills. Wilbur T., the architect, 3.30. 

iNIilton's Paradise Lost, 51. 

Minneapolis, city of, 43. 

Minnesota territory. .Sam. Medary, gov- 
ernor, 70. 

Mission, The Methodist, at Upper San- 
dusky, 45; 75. 

Missionaries at Wyandot Mission, names 
of, 43. 

Missionary Ridge, battle of, 349. 

Mississippi river. The. its width, 31; 
battle on at the taking of Memphis, 
220; river fleet, 183. 

Missouri river. The,. 42. 

Mitchell, Dr. Geo., 481; marriage of, 
483. 

Mitchell, J. M., 172. 

Mitchell, Robert, 1.57, 359, 460. 

Mob, An infuriated, 67. 

Monarchic or aristocratic form of gov- 
ernment, the South prefer, 255. 

Money, ISS; very easy, 153; 173, 261; 
abundant, .300, 480. 



Monnett Hall, endowment, 189. 

Monnett, Mary, a great heiress, 189. 

Monroe Doctrine, 'fhe, 450, 451. 

Monroe, James, 10. 

Jilonterey, a severe fight, the 82d Ohio- 
engaged, 114. 

Montour, a French gentleman, 70. 

Montour, Mary, 76. 

Monument, 478. 

Moore, Mr., photographer, 335. 

Moore, John, 152, 157; Hardy, John, 
Johnston, J. C. , 410. 

Moore,' W. H., 463. 

Morgan, Gen. John H., a sketch of, 
2!)4; 295; the guerrilla, and his men 
in prison, 301. 

Morris, Joseph, 321; a sketch of his 
life, 320. 

Morse, -Mr. F. H.. U. S. Consul at 
London, 166. 

.Morton, Gov. O. P., 100, 412. 

Motley, J. L., 296; f. S. Minister at 
Vienna, letter from, 297; 29S. 

Mott, Hon. C. R., 76. 

Mount Vernon, Washington's home, 9. 

Mounts, S., 31)3. 

Mouser, .Kmbrose, his noble, patriotic 
sentiments, 120; is dead, 177; fun- 
eral sermon, 179. 

Mouser, Benj. F., 352. 

Mouser, David, .337. 

Mouser, Miss Em., .307. 

Mouser, Isaac, 28; went to Lumber- 
land for his son, 177; killed, 308. 

Mudeater, Matthew, a Wyandot Indian, 
46. 

Miinzenberg, Charles, 128, 134; bio- 
graphical sketch, 336; 463. 

Murder will out, 163. 

Murfreesboro, The battle of, 274. 

Napier. Lord, 429. 

Napoleon's scheme, 369. 

Nashville, battle of, 430, 434. 

Nast, Rev. William, 298, 435. 

Nast, William F., the V. S. Consul, 
sketch of, 298, 435. 

National Bank, 425. 

National (iazette. Tlie, 63, 68, 69. 

National Theatre, 37. 

Nationality of the peoide, prior to 1839, 
87. 

Newspapers, The American, the best in 
the world, 198. 

Nebraska Territory, Tlie Provincial gov- 
ernment of, 84. 

Negro, The, was gone, 68; Bill, his 
release, 102. 



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Index 



joined Catholic 



free passage 
the distance, 



Xeil, William, 466. 
Neosho river, The, 44 
Nevins, Mrs. Flora, 

Church, 70. 
Nevins, Miss Mary, 70. 
Nevins, Col. Richard, 70, 
New York City, 9, 36; 

to, ISS; to Liverpool - 

Vi-2. 
New York Evening Post, 319. 
New Orleans, 122; taKen, 209. 
Newman, Joseph, his plantation, 122 . 
Newman, Lewis, his plantation, 122. 
Newton, Rev. Isaac, 150; a sketch of, 

111!); confined within the army lines, 

214. 
Niagara Falls, 123, 479. 
Nicolay and Hay, 19. 
Xiggir, A free, 54; The runaway, 110. 
Xiggertown, 44. 
Noble, W. P., 307; biographical sketch, 

453. 
Nolle prosequi to be entered, 103. 
Norris, Judge Caleb H. , 332. 
Norris, Judge W. G. , 140. 
North, Wm. H., 466. 
Northwest Territory, The, 5. 
Nortoi», Dr. Alson, of Big Island, 

sketch of, 394. 
Norton. A. P.., of Mt. Vernon, ()., 
Norton, John C, 90, 92. 
Norwalk Seminary, The, 



2.39; 
10. 



46. 



Oak Hill Cemetery, 47. 

Ocean, The, a hurricane, 285. 

Odd Fellows, at Davenport, 32. 

Officer, Thomas, 23, 90, 93. 

Officers, recruiting, 332; courtmartialed, 

290. 
•Ohio Archfeological and Historical 

Quarterly, 35; Society, 47. 
Ohio Gazetteer, IS; legislature, SO; 

river. The, 5. 
Ohio State Bulletin, 79, .«5, 93, 94. 
Ohio Statesman, The, 91, 92, 94, 109. 
Ohio Whig papers, 70. 

Old .\bhot Graveyard, The, 8; Domin- 
ion, The, 279; port or Madeira, 39; 

Prairie Farm, 229; Tom Gin, 241; 

World, The, 494. 
•Olds,, Dr. Edson B., 330. 
Olmstead, Edwin B., elected captain, 

130; 133, 3.32, 379. 
Olney, Benj.; 147. 
Omaha, 493. 

Opinion of the court, The, 56; 62. 
•■Opium eater, 150. 



Oquanoxa, 71, 73, 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 
84; (William Walker), 94; valiant 
knight of the fence corner, 107. 

Orton, Prof. Edward, Jr., 116, 121. 

Orton, JNlary Princess Anderson, 116; 
121. 

Osborn, A., 27, 28, -178, 391, 433. 

Osborn, .Mice J., 424. 

Osborn, C. C, 322. 

Osborn, C. M., 322. 

Osborn, Geoffrey, Duke of Leeds, 322. 

Osborn, S. C, sketch of, 322. 

Pacific coast. The, 43. 

Page, J., 93. 

Page, Parson, 7. 

I'aine, Thomas, 402. 

Painter, W. P., 89. 

Pancoast, Sallie, married, 158; 161. 

Paper money depreciating, 251. 

Paralysis, 40. 

Paris, A trip to, 451. 

Park, The, 192. 

Parker, Elisha, 81. 

I'arker, Rev. Thomas, an eloquent 
preacher, 259; his death, 2S5; 286. 

Parsons, Mrs. Geo. M., of Columbus, 
O., 57; 114. 

Party lines. 9. 

Patten, .lolin, 170. 

Patten and Wallace, 176, 344. 

Patten, :Mrs. Orren, 344. 

Patten, Orren. 90, 92. 176; the banker, 
320; sketch of, 342. 

Patten, Richard, 90, 92, 176, 322. 

Patten's Hotel at Marion, 194. 

Patterson, .Andrew H., presented me- 
morial, 90; 104, 105; died in pov- 
erty, 115. 

Patterson, Miss Lizzie, 4S3. 

Peacock, Matthew, a Wyandot Indian, 
46. 

Peacock, Rebecca, a Wyandot Jndian, 
46. 

Pearce, J. W. , -^a. 

Pennsylvania- Dutch and German, 87. 

Pennsylvania, Western, 6. 

Pcnsaeola Xavy \'ard, when evacuated, 
197. 

Pentecost, Catharine, 120. 

Perry's Victory, 4: an Lake FIrie, 13. 

Perrysville, battle of, 14S; description 
of, 246; the bloody battle, 256. 

Peters, Mary Ellen, 416. 

Peters, Ebenezer, 88, 89. 

Peters, Capt. Ebenezer, at the battle of 
Perrysville, sketch of Peters, 256; 292, 
338. 



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93. 






204, 


289, 


322; 


., 146 


2S6, 


2S9; 


etter 


rom. 


333; 



landlord, 196. 
marshal of the 



jmgs 



Peters, Harvey, .S22. 

Peters, Henry, 20, 21, 88, 89, 91, 207; 

found dead, fear he was murdered, 

251, 252. 
Peters, Mrs. Henry, 479. 
Peters, Pauline M., 145. 
Peters, Nathan, 73, S9, 90, 112, 145. 
Peters, Wilson, 293. 
Petersburg, Va. , battle before, 397. 
Petitioner, The, 101; is prepared to 

prove, 102; and his clients, 10;!. 
Pettit, David, 136, 460. 
Peyton, Gen., killed, 184. 
Philadelphia, 9, 36. 
Philanthropist, The, 87, 
Phillips, Prof. Philip, 

sketch of, 333; 485. 
Phillips, Mrs. Olive M. 

gave a party, 303; 

3.S5, 485. 
Pickaway Plains. The, 20, 121. 
Pierce, Simon, the Barber, his poem, 

sketch of, 194. 
Pierson, Smith, the fat 
Pierscn, Thomas, 201; 

day, 302. 
Pike's Peak, The, gold 
Pioneer picnics, 14. 
Picnic, A., 475. 

Pipetown, near a fine spring, 42. 
Pistols, bowie-knives and dirks, 61. 
Pittsburg Landing, the battle of, Union 

victory, 2C4 ; the dreadful battle of, 

2.;9. 
Pixley, Milton, escaped unhurt, 48. 
Places where the choice spirits met, 40. 
Pleasant Hill, Mo., death of T. J. An- 
derson, 491. 
Pleasant Hill, La., battle of, 371. 
Pleasantland, seat of Rev. James Gil- 
ruth, 33. 
Plotner, Dr. Geo. F., 233. 
Plotner, John, of the Itigraham Prairie, 

120. 
Plotner, Julia D., 20, 120, 283. 
Plotner, W. H., sketch of, 283. 
Polak, Juda, 271; abducted and carried 

to sea, historj' of, 272. 
Poison, given by a slave, 120. 
Political leaders, 9. 
Politics a profession, 480. 
Pollock, John, sketch of, 400; 458, 467. 
Pollock, Mrs. Maggie, 157, 195, 207, 288; 

her husband dead, 355; 413, 43S. 
Pollock, Robert F., 157, 289. 
Port Royal bombarded, 160. 
Porter, Charles H., 374. 



131, 13 



140,. 



71; 


sketch of. 


E., 


114. 


E., 


417. 


E., 


239. 


E. 


, late Mrs 



82; 84, 



Gailey, 



Portraits, 1, 110, 117, 119, 
199, 441, 484, 492, 494. 

Potomac River, The, 12, 36, 454. 

Potpie, 303.. 

Potts, David, 4. 

Powell, T. W., 
80, 94, 114. 

Powell, Thomas 

Powell, Mrs. T. 

Powers, Edward E. 

Powers, Mrs. E. 
243. 

Prairie Flower, The, 47S. 

Prentiss Gen., and 2,000 men captured 
by the rebels at Shiloh, 204. 

Presbyterians, The, 21. 

Presents, The, what Cora says, 164; 
made, 432; Tlie wedding, 494. 

President, The, 104; removing disloyal' 
officials, 129. 

President judge, of the circuit, 105. 

Presidential Campaign of 1840, 10; elec- 
tion, 1840, 29; elector, 148. 

President's message, 138. 

Presque Isle, 0. 

Pretender, Tlie, 1. 

Price, (jov., of Missouri, 191. 

Prichaid, Lieut. J. R., 25S; 
at Fredericksburg, 259. 

Priest, Alvin C. , 337, 358. 

Priest, Mrs. E. B., 358. 

Priest, Lydia P., 3SS. 

Princie, Mary, James, and Charles, 

Probate Judge, 27. 

Proctor and Tecumseh, besiege 
Meigs, 13. 

Prosecuting Attorney, The, 101. 

Prosser, Miss Ada, 331. 

Prosser, Miss Isabelle, married Hon. 
C. H. Norris, 332. 

Prosser, T. \V. , 12S, 132. 

Protest and notice of Col. J. S. Halde- 
man, 421, 

T'uovisional government, William Wal- 
ker, governor, 114. 

Purvis, Geo. \V., 81. 

Put-in-Bay, 4. 

Pyrmont, famous health resort, 1.50. 

Quaker, A peace and order loving, 59; 

element, The, 87; honest man, 30. 
Quakers, The, stood by Black Bill, 54;- 

and loose negroes, 72. 
Oueenstowa, near Cork, 131, 168. 

Rabb, Capt. Andrew, recruited a com- 
pany of mounted rangers, 119; his- 
will, 120; 122, 470. 



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■Rabb, Miss Hannah, 119. 
Kabb, John, plantation of, 122. 
Rabb, Mary Scott, 470. 
Rabb, VVilham, massacred by Comanche 

Indians, 122. 
Raichley, Burr, 462, iv Preface. 
Raichley, G. F., 462. 
Raichley, L. F., his letter, 63; 367, 461; 

sketch of, 462; 463, 472, 474. 
Railroad stock. The, 344. 
Rainfall in Hamburg, 395. 
Rail, Frank, 215. 
Ttall, Mrs. Mabel B., 415. 
Ramsey, Robert, redeemed his lands, 

261. 
Tiandall, Hon. E. O., 334. 
Randall, Levi H., 90, 93, 271. 
Randall, Levi H., Jr., 439. 
Randall, Mrs. Sarah, 438. 
Rankin, Catharine, 76. 
Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, 

battle of, 322. 
Rappe, John S., the banker, tells of 

Indian honesty, 47. 
Rappes, The, sketch of, 47. 
Rappe, Mrs. Mary H., 47. 
Ttebel prisoners, 720 from Ft. Donelson, 

rebel officer's wife, 198. 
Rebeflion, The, slaveholders, 50; com- 
ing to an end, 443. 
Rebels and rebel sympathizers, 269; The, 

230;.. stripped of their strongholds, 

107. 
Tteber, Thomas V., of Wyandot county, 

sketch of, 241. 
T^eber, Mrs. Rachel Allen, sketch of 

and children, 241. 
Reception, The, 478. 
•"Recollections" of Mrs. James Gilruth, 

33. 
Red River Expedition, The, sketch of, 

371. 
Reed, Benj., a revolutionary soldier, 

144. 
T?eed, Elizabeth P., 137, 394. 
Reed, Frank, 136. 
Heed, James, 144. 
Tieed, James H., 144, 
Ueed, James P., 144. 

Reed, J. S., 89, 143, 144; got letter tell- 
ing of shotgun, 203; 212; in very 

poor health, 256; 257, 394, 407, 457, 

463, 466, 88, 491. 
Reed, J. S. & Co., 196. 
Reed, Mrs. J. S., 481. 
Reid, Rev. J. M., sketch of, 406. 
Reed, Sarah E., 144, 48JL 
Reed, Sarah H... 39. 



Reed, Sophronia, 117, 144, 331.. 

Reed, Col. William P., 240. 

Reeds, The, sketches of, 143. 

Reid, Whitelaw, his Ohio in the War, 

341 ; iv Preface. 
Rehburg, a summer resort, 392; 393; 

sketch of, 398; 411. 
Renick, J. O. B., of Columbus, his 

sick son, 193. 
Reno, Gen. Jesse L. , killed at South 

Mountain, 243. 
Resaca, Ga. , battle of, 377. 
Resurrection, The, 406. 
Revolution, The American, 5; of 1840, 

11; The, Tories of, 282. 
Revolutionary soldiers: vi'here buried, 4. 
Reynolds, Capt. Girard, 337; killed, 

sketch of, 388. 
Reynolds, Mrs. Girard, starts to Ft. 

Monroe, 220. 
Reynolds, L. D. , 289. 
Reynolds, Gen. John F., killed, 290. 
Reynolds, Sophie G., sketch of, 289. 
Rhine, Trip up the, 413. 
Rhodes, George, 465. 
Rice, Gen. A. V., sketch of, 444. 
Rice, Mrs. A. V., sketch of, 444. 
Rice, Isaac, SI. 
Rich Mountain, The battle of, 141, 142, 

148, 151. 
Richardson, Mr., of Marion, SO; of 

Montreal, 167. 
Richland township, 87. 
Richmond, The fall of, 444. 
Richmond Whig, The, 64, 65, 78. 
Ridgway, C. A., 314. 

Ridgway, Joseph, 29; member of Con- 
gress, 30; sketch of, 30. 
Ridgway's foundry, 30. 
Riggin, Jay, 4. 

Riley, George, died of typhoid, 195. 
Riley, John J., 195. 
Riley, Mr., 474. 
Riot at Marion, 65. 
Rioters, The, threats of, 61. 
River Farm, 153. 
River Raisin, The, 13. 
Roanoke Island, a great victory, 191. 
Robbery, or land piracy, 74. 
Robbins, Camelia, 173, 293. 
Robbins, William, 173. 
Robespierre, 462. 
Robinson, Mrs. E. Y., 470. 
Robinson, Gen. J. S., of Kenton, O., 

74; 160; sketch of, 161; 162, 175, 179, 

185, 215, 240; wounded, 290; 291, 

295, 381, 472; Ramsey and Scofield 

are under Fremont, 216. 



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Ivobitaille, Robert, a Wyandot Indian, 

Rock Island, 111., 32. 

Rockwell, Miss S. M., 406, 407. 

Rolling Plain, The, 153, 450. 

Roniney, camp of 4th Ohio, 1G2; battle 
of, 163; ISl, 45a. 

Rosecrans, den. W. S., 270; in Tenn., 
defeated the rebels at Murfreesboro, 
274; 305, 313; sketch of, 344. 

Roult, Miss Martha, 36. 

Roundhead and Cavalier blood, 113. 

Rowdy element; The, 40. 

Rowe, (len. Geo., attorney for claimant 
of Black Rill, 54; .55, 62, 66, GS, 71, 
80, 89, ill. 100; removed to Cali- 
fornia, 112. 

Rowe and Sweetser, 73. 

Rowse, A., 23. 

Ruggles, Hon. S. B., Commissioner to 
the Berlin Congress, 32S; 3:^0, 331. 

Runyan, Mrs. Noah, goes to Ft. Mon- 
roe, 220. 

Russia, empress of, 340. 

Rutan, Miss Rebecca, sketch of, 459. 

Rye, instead of Rio, 258. 

Sabine Cross Roads, the battle of, 371. 

Sagger, Benjamin, 90. 

Sailor, Isaac, 93. 

Sailor, Samuel, 93. 

Sailors from Germany for our navy, 253. 

St. Augustine, Fla., 136. 

St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, 5. 

St. George's Channel, 132. 

St. Louis, 494. 

St. Patrick, patron saint, 131. 

Salter, Frank R., 195, 296. 

Salter, Martha L. , 296. 

Salter, Samuel, 22, 296. 

Salmon, John B., died of paralysis, 
sketch of, 173. 

Salm-Salm, Prince, Feli.x, killed, sketch 
of, 369; 370. 

Salm-Salm, Princess Agnes, her heroic 
life, .369; portrait, 370. 

Saloon influence, 140. 

Saltpeter sold to Russia, 169. 

Sanderson, Colonel, 4. 

Sandusky county, 18. 

Sandusky Plains, The, 43, 47. 

Sandusky river. The, 42, 453. 

Sanford, Gen. H. S., U. S. Minister at 
Brussels, 165; approves of scheme to 
capture Confederate vessel, 166; was 
pleased with Capt. Eastman, 107; 248. 

Sanitary Fairs, 364, 376. 



Sanitary Commission, Xew York, 360; 
an account of, 343. 

Santa Claus, 179. 

Sargent, Mrs. M. C, 358. 

Sarrahas, a Wyandot Indian, 46. 

Savage's Station, The battle of, 333. 

Savannah, siege and battle, sketch, 436. 

Scalping diversions, 41.. 

Scandal, involving the good name, etc., 
228. 

-Scenery, finest in the world, 10. 

Schenck, Gen. R. C, sketch of, 134, 
4S7. 

Schleiden, Dr. R., Hamburg ^Minister 
at Washington, 268; 279. 

Schleswig-Holstein war. The, an ac- 
count of, 339; 344, 347, 380. 

•Schmidt, G, supercargo, 453. 

Scholarship, 34. 

.School House, The old brick, 59. 

.Schoolmaster, The, 12. 

Schooner, The, "W. S. Pierson," 
sketch, 453. 

Schurz, Hon. Carl, sketch of, 187; ap- 
pointed brigadier-general, letter from, 
202; his talk with Seward, two con- 
sulates, act of Congress, raising sal- 
aries, reduction of, our military af- 
fairs, battle of Bull Run, the army 
of the Potomac, end of the war, re- 
sources of the rebels, the ultimate 
result, what Seward said of Consul 
Anderson, etc., 203; will not return 
to Madrid as minister, 205; 24S; his 
division, 281; 332. 

Scofield, Durfee and Scofield, 145. 

Scofield, Hon. Geo. B., 237. 

Schofield, Gen. J. M., 367, 430. 

Scofield, Mrs. Capt. W. E., 149. 

Scofield, Capt. W. E. , 149, 216, 240; 
sketch of, 337. 

Scofield, W. E., Jr., 237. 

Scott, Charles, publisher O. S. Journal, 
writes to Hon. T. J. Anderson, 108; 
109, 110. 

Scott, Capt. D. A.. 155, 156. 

Scott, Heman, 28, 393. 

Scott, Mary, 120. 

Scott, Winfield, 2'), 128. 

Scribner, H., 2.3. 

Search, Thomas, Jr., 88, 89. 

Seasickness, 442. 

Searls. W. II.. 149; a merchant, 162; 
196. 

Sears, Col. Cyrus, sketch of, 366. 

Sears, Mrs. Sarah A., .366. 

Sears, Tohn D. , 404. 



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Secret Society, The Masonic, 28. 

Scftner, Mr., 3:^4. 

Seffner, C. F., 374. 

Seffner, Fred. P., 410. 

Sellers, Mr. and Mrs. of Marion, 201. 

Seneca Indians, The, when they re- 
moved, 44; Reservation, The, when 
ceded, 44. 

Sessions, Mrs. F. C, 394. 

Seven Days* Battle, The, near Rich- 
mond, between AicClcllan and Lee, 
333. 
. Seward, Major, severely wounded, 446. 

Seward, F. W., If!!), 170; his compli- 
mentary despatch to James H. An- 
derson, 222; to J. H. Anderson, 278; 
362, 378, 389; his skull broken, 446; 
44S; his letter, portraits of the Presi- 
dent — Lincoln — and Secretary of 
State, 139. 

.Seward, VV. H., Secretary of State, 16.5; 
dispatch of, 243; 253, 288, 419, 420; 
murderously assaulted, 446; 44£; his 
portrait, 139. 

Sewing machine, 484. 

Seymour, Renick, 4.54, 4.55, 457, 458, 459. 

Shaffer, Martin, 17, 455. 

Shaffner. Col. T. P., 447. 

Shakespeare, 51. 

Shamrock, A, 131. 

Shannon, Wilson, governor of Ohio, 
110. 

Sharp. Andrew, county treasurer, 27; 
.115; dead, 310. 

Sharp, Miss Jennie, 340. 

Sharpless homestead, 157. 

Sharpless, P. ()., sketch of, 209; 322, 
342. 

Sharpless, Mrs. P. ()., sketch of, 299. 

.Shaw, Rev. S. P., missionary, 45. 

Shaw, J. B., 93. 

Shaw, Col. John W. , sketch of, 395. 

Shawhan, R. W., 334. 

"She stoops to conquer," 51. 

Shellabarger, Samuel, 312; sketch of, 
412. 

Shcijherd, Henry, son of Rev. I. N., 
355. 

Shepherd, Rev. I. N., moves to Munsie, 
153; 213. 

Sheppard, Prof., 366. 

Sheridan, Gen., splendid victories, 414. 

.Sheriff's posse, The, 59. 

Sherman family, The, 480. 

Sherman, C. R. , sketch of, 481. 

Sherman, C. T. , 389; letter from, sketch 
of, 461; 481. 



Sherman, John, 121; raised 'l he .Sher- 
man brigade, 174; 175, 261, 48.1, 4S2, 
4.S7. 

Sherman, Mrs. John, 4,S2. 

Sherman, .Mrs. Judge. 121, 4S1. 

Sh-crman, (.)., 93. 

.Sherman, (Sen. \V. T. , memoirs of, 10; 
at Shiloh, 204; 261, 332, .342, 377; his 
battles, 381; 397, 436, 441, 4S1. 

Sherwood, Elizabeth W. , to J. H. An- 
derson,, 360; thanks J. H. Anderson 
for contributions, 363; 3S9. 

Shields, Gen., defeated Jackson. 201. 

Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Chicka- 
mauga, and ^Missionary Ridge, bat- 
tles of, 350. 

Shirtliff, Old Mr., died, 203. 

Shrenk, John, 92. 

Sickles, (;en. D. E., lost a leg, 290. 

Sieljert, Cyrus M., sketch of, 240; .300, 
4(;3. 

Sichert, John, sketch of, 300, 463. 

Simms, Rev. T., missionary, 45. 

Simson, Samuel, 4. 

Sketch, biographical, Anderson, J. H., 
49.5; .XndLrscn, J. T., 5':2. 

Skating, 464. 

.Slave case in Marion, The, 110. 

Slave hunters. Van Bibber, Goshorn, 
McClanahan, Bowers, Smith, Kline, 
Robert Anderson, and . Lawrence, 55. 

.Slavery, 110; its death blow, 230. 

Slick's Inn, 102. 

Slidell, J'llm, Confederate commis- 
sioner, 1()4. 

Sloan, John T., 90. 

Sloan, Thomas M., 90, 92. 

Smallpox, in Waldo, 205. 

Smith, Mr., slave hunter, 54. 

Smith. Charles, 90, 93; architect and 
liuihler, 21,6; 229. 

Sniilli, Charles B., postmaster, 129. 

Smith, Edward, 89. 

Smith. Mrs. George, 146. 

Smith. George, 157, 201, 241, 46.3. 

Smith, Gen. Kirby, 371. 

Smith. Lute, killed by bursting cannon, 
2:)1. 

Snakes, venomous, 19. 

Snider, John R., SJ. 

.Snow, the deepest for many years, 266. 

Snyder, George, son of killed, 270. 

Soldier secures a divorce, 385. 

Soldier vote. The, 412. 

.Soldiers' Aid Society, 179; entertain- 
ment to raise money, 200; its good 
work, 205. ,307. sketch of, 343. 394, 435. 



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Soldiers, back home, 4.")1 ; claiiii'^. will 
not be paid to non-resident foreign- 
ers, "251 : from (lermany for our 
army, 25.1 ; from Poland and Ger- 
many, 3G1 ; sick in hospital, 1S2 ; 
Revolutionary and other, S. 

Solomon, an Indian, 43. 

Songs of the campaign of '40, II. 

Sons of Temperance, at Davenport, .'!2. 

South, The, where hospitality is found, 
118. 

South Mountain, The battle of, 2f2. 

Southern Confederacy, recognition of, 
14C. 

Southern sympathizers, 141, 142, 102. 

Southerners, The, 95. 

Souvenir, A, 4-58. 

Sowers, Henry, dead, 271. 

Spelman, E. G., G:<, 71, 72, 74, SO, 92; 
abolitionist, 100; 112, 472. 

Spooner, G. \V. , publisher, .'^4S. 

Spaulding, Abel, 4. 

Spaulding, Cora, 117; a child of tnus- 
ical talent, 123; 135, 139, 105, 171; doll 
baby, 180; 188, 219; an education in 
Europe, 225; 320, 344; sketch of, 352; 
381, 416, 437, 492, 494. 

Spaulding, Lyman, 74, 200: orderly 
sergeant, the duties of, 242; sick at 
Perry ville, 25G; 273, 277; Capt., 311; 
315, 327, 3.37; Capt., 372; 393, 399, 
472. 

Spaulding, Rodney, 74, 88, 89. 

Spalding, Rufus P., acting chairman, 
report of on memorial, 104; lOil. 

Spring, 443. 

Spoils of war. The, 110. 

Spottsylvania, The battle of, 375, 377. 

Sprung, Alexander, 72, 112. 

Sprung, Qeorge and Alexander, 60. 

Squatters in Marion county prior to 
1820, 18. 

Stagecoaches that carried the mails, 108. 

Stalter, Hiram, 402. 

Stanley, Gen. David S., 430. 

Stanton, Dr., 448. 

Stanton Edwin M., Secretary of War, 
215; 319; his heroic efforts, 448; kind 
and polite, 447. 

Starr, S. C, 90, 93. 

State Convention, The Whig, Feb. 22, 
1840, 91. 

State Department, 249, 252; The, an- 
swers J. H. Anderson's inquiries, 253; 
to J. H. Anderson, about good will 
of king of ijavaria, 260; informs J. 
H. Anderson, etc., 262; to .T. H. 
Anderson, abduction of Juda Polak, 

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272; publishes dispatch of J. H. An- 
<lersnn, 278; The, to .1. H. Ander- 
son, 283; Metropolitan Fair, 362; 
43!); sends portraits to .1. TL Ander- 
son of Lincoln and Seward, 139. 

Statesman, The Ohio, 04, 70. 

State Flouse, The, archives of, 109. 

Staten Island, N. Y.. 30. 

Stearns, A. M., Theo. Lcland, C. L. 
Mayo, 491. 

Steubenville, 120; I'emale Seminary, 
21(1. 

.Stewart, Dr. (ieo., 1. 

Stewart, Rev. John, missionary, 45. 

Stewart, Judge, of Mansfield, O., 46. 

Stokes, John D., sketch of, 345; 374. 

Stokes, Mrs. John D., letter from, 276. 

Stokes' tavern, The, 57; hotel. The, 72. 

Stone, O. R., 90. 

Stone jug (jail). The, 39. 

Stone River, battle of, 148. 

Storm at sea, 1.32, 188. 

Strelitz, Julius, 463. 

Stringham, Commodore, 148. 

Strong, Horace, 20. 

Sturges, Mrs. J., of New York, 361. 

Sturgiss, Rev. Geo., 144. 

Subscribed $10,000, 127. 

Substitutes, who can serve, 398. 

Sunday law suits, 95. 

Surprise party, 424. 

.Surratt, John-H., 447. 

Sutton, Mr., 170. 

Swainps of Northern Ohio, 4. 

Swampy prairies, 19. 

Swan, Judge Gustavus, 57, 113, 114. 

Swans, The, sketch of, 57. 

Sweetser, Charles, attorney for claimant 
of Black Bill, 54; 55, 62, 68, 71, 75, 
77, 80; his arrest and trial, 85; when 
he was tried, 87; a Kentucky colonel, 
95; 96, 103, 104; his memorial asking 
impeachment of Judges Bowen and 
Anderson, 105; his ignorance, 107; 
108, 112. 

Sweney, Dr. R. L., 212, 404. 

Sweney, Mrs. R. L. , sketch of, 404. 

Swinerton, James, 4. 

Syndicus for foreign affairs, his note in 
German, 422. 



Tallmadge, A. W., 93. 

Tallmadge, Mrs. Frank, 

Tallman, Benj., 23. 

Tap rooms and taverns, 

Tarlton, Ohio, 32. 

Tarr, Edwin S., 120. 

Tarr, Mary Dunlcvy, 20, 283. 



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Tariff, The, has advanced prices, 182. 

Tax-titles, a buyer of, 24 ; 258, 427. 

Taxes, 254. 

Taylor, Ansel, 90. 

Taylor, Bayard, the author and trav- 
eler, joke told in Germany, 202; 341. 

Taylor, David, 139, 252, 335, 354, 415. 

Taylor, Col. E. L., 357; sketch of, 431. 

Taylor, Henry C, 397, 431. 

Taylor, R. N., 136, 139; if given a 
colonel's commission would recruit a 
black regiment, 235; 249, 257; his 
home "Sunnyside," 304; 354; sketch 
of, his ancestors and descendants, 
415. 

Taylor, Mrs. R. N., 135, 147, 357; sketch 
of, 415; 431; a rich patient, 442. 

Taylor, William, of Columbus, O., 241. 

Taylor, Col. W. A., 18. 

Taylor, Zachary, 25. 

Tecumseh, 13. 

Temple of justice profaned, 100. 

Tennessee for secession, 133. 

Terpany, Sam., dead, 271; his funeral, 
275 ; 334. 

Terpany, Mrs. Samantha, 271, 440. 

Territory, The, Northwest, the Indians 
of. 111. 

Territorial government, A, 114. 

Terry, Gen. A. H., 440. 

Texas, The annexation of, 50; Republic 
of, 113. 

Thanksgiving Day, 427. 

Thayer, Rev. Charles, 43. 

Thayer, Mrs. Charles, 43. 

Thoburn, Bishop J. M., 406; sketch of, 
407. 

Thomas, Gen. George H., 183, 184, 312, 
430, 434. 

Thomas, H. , 176, 105, 463. 

Thompson, Maj. David, 381. 

Thompson, E., 93. 

Thompson, Dr. J. P., and other offi- 
cers, 226. 

Thompson, Rev. Thomas, missionary, 
45. 

Thomson, Bishop Edward, 35, 45, 417, 
425. 

Thurman, Allen G., 143. 

Tickel, Benj., 4. 

Tiffin, Ohio, 453. 

Tillotson, Mrs. Ann E., 401. 

Tillotson, Charles, 130; volunteered for 
three years, 156; 174, 186; sick in 
hospital in Tenn., 204; 206; has 
typhoid fever, 209; home from Tenn. 
hospital, a skeleton, 211; at home, 
getting' well, 229; 275. 



Tillotson, Elizabeth V., 147, 159; has 
typhoid fever, 189; 275, 294; sketch 
of, 384, 401. 

Tillotson, George, 493. 

Tillotson boys. The, near Nashville, 201. 

Tillotson, Josephine L. , letter from, 275. 

Tillotson, Louisa, 493. 

Tillotson, Samuel, 27, 90, 92; his fam- 
ily, 198; delivering army horses, 200; 
206, 209; as a husband and father, 
219; sketch of, names of wife and 
children, 275; 280, 342; sketch of,. 
401. 

Tillotson, T. E., 130, 155, 186; is pro- 
moted, 195; 204; Dr. White, D. 
Scott, and others are under Gen. Hal- 
leck at Coriinth, 216; Capt., the 
brave soldier, 219; 270, 311, 315, 327; 
wounded, 33S; 'his present, 347; 349; 
letter from, was wounded at Mis- 
sionary Ridge, 350; his adventures, 
sketch of, 351; 353, 357, 393, 399, 401, 
451. 

Tippecanoe, 11. 

Tipton, S. S., 23. 

Tirrill, Mrs. J. L., 126, 210. 

Tirrill, William L., sketch of, 425. 

Tod, David, majority for governor, 
1.58; Gov., asks Marion for troops 
at once, 215; 321. 

Tolstoi, Count Leo., the author, 370. 

Tomahawk, Shake his, 86. 

Tombigbee river, 460. 

Tony Lumpkin's Song, 51. 

Train, George Francis, speech of, 184. 

Transcript, The O. W., 189. 

Treason, 156. 

Treasonable editorials, 140. 

Treaties with Ohio Indians, 5. 

"Trent," The, British merchant ship, 
104. 

Trevitt, William, 26. 

Tribune, Ihe New York, 141. 

"Trimbles, The," 19. 

Tristam, Mr., 162. 
True, Elizabeth, 144. 

True, Harry, 43, 1.37, 182, 194, 299. 

True, Mrs. Henry, 299, 389. 

True, Henry Ayer, Jr., graduate of 
Princeton, 137. 

True, Dr. H. A., sketch of Marion in 
1839, 39; his wife, visit Montreal and 
Quebec, 137; 257; sketch of, 394. 

True, Mrs. Dr. H. A., and sister, 146. 

Trues, The, sketches of, 137. 

Tumult, The, when Black Bill was dis- 
charged, 56. 

Tunnel Hill, Ga., fight, 375. 



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Tupper, Miss Lucy M., US. 

Turney, Weaver A., brother of Ger- 
trude, 188; 196, 342. 

Turney, Mrs. Weaver A., handsome 
flowers, 218. 

Turrill, Miss Annie, of London, sketch 
of, 194; 294. 

Turrill, Mrs. Isabelle W., 199; picture 
of, 205; of London, 239. 

Tyrone county, Ireland, 119. 

Tj'phoid fever, 170. 

Tymochtee river, The, 47. 

Tymochtee, 44. 

Uhler, Ira, sketch of, 374. 

L'leyate's school in Marion, 360. 

Ullman, Jo., 372, 463. 

I'llman. Mrs. Jo., 373. 

Ulsh, Levi, husband of murdered wo- 
man, 162; sketch of, 163. 

L'lsh, !Mrs. , was murdered, 162; when 
assassinated, who suspected, 163. 

LTlster, princes of, 121. 

Uncle Tom's Cabin, 51. 

L^nderground Railroad, The, 50, 63. 

L'nderwood, E. , SI. 

LTnion schools, 34; Churchyard, near 
Scotttown, 91; The, nearly rent in 
twain, 94; party, majority in legis- 
lature, 158; man, A good loyal, 209; 
cause. The, 402; party succeeds, 412. 

United States notes, value of same, 196. 

L'niversalists, The, 21. 

University, The O. W., 35, 126. 

Upper Sandusky, 4, 41, 44; great mass- 
meeting, 302; 478. 

^'aIlandigham and Pugh, 294. 

Vallandighani, C. L. , 287, 302, 304; bio- 
graphical sketch, 310; 319, 336, 390, 
403. 

Van Bibber, Adnah, claimant of Black 
Bill., 53; 54; in jail, 59, 62, 65, 66, 
68, 71, 73, 80, 95, 96; the claimant 
of the slave, 98; 99; against Mitchell, 
a colored man, 102. 

Van Buren, Martin, 106; President of 
the U. S., 110; 113. 

Van Buskirk, William, 81. 

Vance, Col. J. W., killed, 371. 

Vanderbilt, Commodore, 324. 

Van Fleet, H. T., 143, 178; his sister, 
198; 433. 

Van Fleet, Joshua, 4; revolutionary sol- 
dier, 143. 

Van Limburg, R., Minister of the 
Netherlands, 272. 

Vicar of Wakefield, The, 51. 



Victoria, The dominions of, 93; deco- 
rated by, 181. 

Violets are blooming, 206. 

Villainy, 159. 

Virginia, Valley of, 2; frontiers, 6; 
slave hunters. The, 41; 50; secession 
of, 128; West, all right, 128; Valley 
of, 458. 

Virginians, The, 54; threatened the 
lives of all, 61; four, 67; 74, S3, 85, 
88; with dirks and pistols, 93; 97; 
took the negro, 98; arrested, 99; in- 
dicted, 100; their trial, 101; 104. 

Volunteers, 240; who they are, 334. 

Von Gerolt, Baron, 227, 448. 

Wade, Hon. B. F., .^38. 

Waddell, Benj., son of John, sketch of 
his life, a good man, 229. 

Waddell, Mrs. Jane Osborn, 229. 

Waddell, Benjamin, 230. 

Waddell Ladies" Home Association, 
founded by Benj. Waddell, 330. 

Wages, 450. 

Waldorf-Astoria, The, 369. 

Walker, Catharine Rankin, 75. 

Walker, James, died of typhoid, 195. 

Walker, Jesse, 195 

Walker, Matthew and Joel, Wyandot 
Indians, 46. 

Walker, Thomas, died of typhoid fever, 
195. 

Walker, William, called Gov. Walker, 
42; 43; a Wyandot Indian, 46; 57; 
of Upper Sandusky, life of, 75; was 
fuddled, 70; a proslavery Whig, his 
ruling passion, 77; his diary, 78; his 
favorite poem, no monument at his 
grave, S4; So; writing over the sig- 
nature of "Oquanoxa," 86; 96; re- 
moved West, July 12, 1843, 114. 

Walker, William, Sr., 75, 76. 

Walkers, The, sketches of, 75. 

Wallace, T. P., 258, 367; and others, 
405. 

Wallace, Mrs. T. P., 344. 

War, 192, 243, 290. 

War records, Indian, indexing, 6; De- 
partment, The, 6; gloomy, 388; has 
hardening effect, 185; its tendency, 
205. 

Ward, Adolphus W., author, 427. 

Ward, Mrs. Caroline B., 429. 

Ward, Gen. Durbin, 393. 

Ward, John, 335; oiplomatist, sketch 
of, 429; Companion of the Bath, 427. 

Ward, John, Jr., in East India, civil 
service, 427; 448. 



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Ward. Sir William, 41(i: sketch of, 427. 
VV'armcastle, Mrs. Grace, 403. 
Warpole, The Indian Chief, 42, 46. 
VVarpole, Miss, daughter of the chief, 

her style of dress, 42. 
Warrant, A, for, SS. 
Warren, Richard, 144. 
Warren, Sara, 144. 
Washington City, 29, 393, 449. 
Washington, George, 3, 4, 6, 9. 
Washington and Jeflferson College, 110. 
Washington, James, a Wyandot Indian, 

46. 
Washington, Col. John A., killed, 151. 
Washington's birthday at Hamburg, 20). 
Waterloo, The field of, 215; mementoes 

from, 218. 
Waters, Mrs. Wesley, sketch of, 400. 
Watson, Mrs. Caroline, sketch of, 4S.'?. 
Watson, Mrs. Clara S., 404. 
Watson, C. K., 39, 41, 55, 71, 75, 77, 

79, SI, 82, S4; "The modern Cicero," 

So; a very handsome man, SO; 90; 

prosecuting attorney, 92; 93, 94. 99; 

a good lawyer, 112; 114, 477, 4S3. 
Watson, Mrs. C. K., 79. 
Watson, Karl N.. 403. 
Watson, Pliny. 403. 
WatSon, S., sketch of, 403; 460. 
Watson, Mrs. S., 4!!3. 
Watsons, The, sketches of, 79. 
Wayne, Anthony, 5; "Mad Antony," 

G; 10, 111. 
Wayne's Army, 5; Forts, 5; Legion, 

5, 6; men, 10; treaty at Greenville, 

12. 
Webster, Hon. Daniel, given cane in 

18.36, 23. 
Webster, Miss S. D., 207. 
Wedding, 494. 
Weed, Hon. Tlnirlow, sent abroad by 

the State ]1e[iartmint on a special 

mission, 248. 
Wells, Capt. C. H., of lioUowell, Me., 

167. 
Wells, Mrs. Emclie, born in Hamburg, 

167. 
Welsh, Madison, 149. 
Wennberg, C. W., 2S4. 
Wesley, John and Charles, works of, 

51. 
West N'irginia, sketcn of. 454. 
Western Gala.xy, The, a Marion paper, 

194. 
Westlake, Mrs. Mary Bracefe, 32. 
Westlake, Thomas, 32. 
Wetmore, Dr. Charles II., 323. 
Wetmore, James C. , 461. 



Whales, school of 50, 132. 

Wliayman, H. W., 314. 

Wheeler Charles Y., inventor, 471. 

Wheeler, Daniel, 470. 

Wheeler, Rev. James, missionary, 45. 

Wheeler, John, 471. 

Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Y., 470. 

Wheeler's Cavalry, 367. 

Whig members of Congress, 29; State 

Convention, 1S40, in Columbus, O., 

30; legislature in Mich, in 1840, 30; 

party. The, 109. 
Whigs of 1840, 11; of Ohio, The, 30. 
Whisky Insurrection, The, 6; The In- 
dians loved it, 43; 44. 
White Oak Swamp, i he battle of, 333. 
White, Robert, 455. 
Whiting, Mrs., 57, 111. 
Whiting. Gen. W. H. C, 440. 
W'iebess, Capt. G. S., for gallant con- 
duct given a gold medal by the U. S. 

government, 250. 
Wilcox, Col. Jehial, 4. 
Wildbahn, Amanda, 382, 394. 
Wildbahn, John, 90. 
Wildbahn, Mrs., 146. 
Wilderness, The battle of, 375, 377. 
Wilkes, Capt., 164; of the U. S. ship 

"San Jacinto," cai)tured Mason and 

Slidell, 2ii3. 
Wilkins, Mr., 3. 

William Henshaw Chapter, D. A. R. , 3. 
Williams, Benjamin, 2; and wife, 20; 

90, 92; son of Walter Williams, 335; 

sketch of, 345. 
Williams, 1!. II., 39, 90, 92, 141, 195, 

212. 110. 
Williams. Elizabeth, 20, 483. 
Williams. James, ISl. 
Williams, Mrs. Jane .S. . llli; a nice 

dinner, 151; 171; tells of a battle, 

183; gave a party, 214, 303; 3tl, 43S, 

440. 
Williams, Jay W., 241; a sketch of, 

276; family data, 374. 
Williams, John 1!., sketch of, 261; 271, 

292; at home on leave, 302; 334, 418, 

459, 476. 
Williams, John, of Chicago, 144. 
Williams, Col. John J.. 90, 175; sketch 

of, 178; 201, 204: resigned from the 

army, 256; 424, 433. 
Williams, Judge J. J., 90, 92, 151, 276, 

330; sketch of, 374. 
Williams, Mary B., ISO, 1S4, 200, 220, 

286, 307; sketch of, 345; 353, 382. 
Williams, Nathan, sketcn of. 483. 
W'illiams, Sarali, 20. 



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195, 



speaker, 

4!'5. 
29(1; bio- 



Williams, Walter, 90, 93. 
Williams, Will, son of B. IT. Williams, 
141; secretary of Gen. McDowell, 216. 
Williams, William, i, 242, .307, 314, 325; 

of Eden, 3.35; 488. 
Wilson, Amanda, ITS. 
Wilson, Capt. Kyron, of the U. S. 
Navy, sketch of, 103; 193, 195, 29G; 
additional facts, 3S4. 
Wilson, Mary Rabb, 470. 
Wilson, Richard, 89, 91; sketch of, 

491. 
Wilson, Sanford, 172. 
Wilson, Sarah A., 2'.m, 
Wilson, Rev. T. H., fluent 
and good story teller, 334; 
Wilson, Col. \V'. T., captured, 

graphical sketch, 295. 
Winchester, Gen., surrenders to iSritish 
and Indians in 1813 — savage cruelty, 
13. 
Winchester, "bloody work," 171; liattle 
of, 201; battlefield, visited by W. H. 
Seward, 202; battle of, .395; or Ope- 
quon, battle of, 414. 
A\'ine. prominence given, 170; Rhenish, 

197. 
Winnipeg, the home of Mrs. Kastman, 

1C7. 
Winter, terribly severe, 341. 
Wise, Gov. Henry A., 191. 
Wise, O. Jennings, killed, 191. 
Wise, Letcher, Mason, Floyd, Lee and 

others, 279. 
Witnesses, testimony of, 100. 
^\■olcott, E. ().. late U. S. Senator, 

20S. 
Wolfe, Mr., 312. 

Wood, Bradford R., Minister at Copen- 
hagen, .380. 
Wood county, 18. 
Woman's Rights, 161. 
Wool, 396, 450, 451. 
Wool buyer. A., 24. 

Wool is advancing, 157; price of, 333. 
Worth, S. M., 70, 381. 



Worth, .Mrs. S. M., 171. 

Worthington, Ohio, 32. 

Wright, Gov. J. A., commissioner to 
Hamburg, 283; sketcn of, 280; Gov., 
288; 308, 309; his tour of Europe, 
340. 

Wyandot city, 42; forest, near Missouri 
river, 43; Indians, 5; treaty with at 
I'pper Sandusky, 44; their ponies, 
45; honesty of, 47; The, sketch of, 
4ij; language. The, 10; Mission, The, 
History of, 75; Nation, The, in the 
Indian territory, 46; Reservation, 5, 
41; in Ohio, and in Indian Terri- 
tory, 42; 47, 76; s<iuaw, 189; towns, 
44. 

Wyandols, The, friendship of, 12; left 
Ohi(j, July 12, 1S43, 46; 75; exodus 
of, 76; 84. 

Wyatt, Nathaniel, 4. 

Yancey, W. L., the rebel leader, dead, 
sketch of, -.an. 

^'andes, Anna \\'., 470. 

Vandes, Daniel, 308; and family, 309; 
sketch of, 470; 471, 494. 

Yandes, George B., 470. 

"S'andes, James W. , 470. 

Yandes, Mary Rabb, 471. 

^'andes, Simon, sketch of, 470; 494. 

Young, Clu-istian, 413. 

Young, David and Jacob, Wyandot In- 
dians, 46. 

"i'oung, Harry R., sketch of, 413. 

Y'oung, Isaac, sketch of, 413. 

Yorktown, 3. 

Zahn, Henry, 453. 

Zane, Jonathan, proprietor of Zanes- 

ville, O., 46. 
Zane, Sarah, of Wheeling, 46. 
Zanesville, (_)hio., 46, 65. 
Zollicoffer, (ien. F. K., 183; dead on 

the field, 184. 
Zuck, John, 184. 
Zuck, Thomas, 334. 



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Abott, Hon. G. J., 4.)7. 

Anderson, Alice F. , portrait, 494; 501. 

Anderson, Amelia E., portrait, 484; 501. 

Anderson, Annie E., portrait, 492. 

Anderson, C. F., portrait, 484; 501. 

Anderson coat-of-arms, 505. 

Anderson, Helen, 503. 

Anderson, James H., i, vi. 

Anderson, James H., portrait, 131; bio- 
graphical sketch, 495; 497, 498, 501. 

.Anderson, Mrs. James H., portrait, 199. 

Anderson, Lieut. James T., portrait, 
116, 441, 484; sketch of, 501; gradu- 
ates, 502; 504. 

Anderson, Mary P., portrait, 110, 441; 
501. 

Anderson, Princess A., 501. 

Anderson, Nancy D., 495. 

Anderson, Thomas J., i, iii, vi. 

Anderson, Thomas J., portrait, frontis- 
piece ; 495. 

Anderson, Mrs. Thomas T.. portrait, 

Tl9. 
Anderson, Gen. Thomas M., .'69. 

Anti-Abolition Meeting, v. 

Arthur, Chester A., 504. 

I'.agley, Helen-, 501, 503. 

Eagley, Gov. John J., 501, 503. 

Bar Association, The, 500. 

Beatty, Gen. John, The Citizen Soldier, 

iv. 
Bent, Abner, 495, 501. 
Bent, .Mien H. , The historian, 501. 
Bent coat-of-arms, 495, 501. 
Bent, Sarah, 501. 
Bent, Col. Silas, 495., 501. 
Bishop, Governor, 499. 
Black Bill, escape of, v. 
Bowen, Ozias, 495. 
Brougham, Lord, iii. 
Burke, Edmund, i. 

Carroll, Charles, iii. 

Chambers, John W. , 497. 

Civil War, The, iii. 

Colorado Springs, 503. 

Comte de Paris, The, Civil War, iv. 

Congress, .^n appropriation, 498. 

Copyright, ii. 



David's Island, 



51)3. 



Durfee, Bradford R., 495. 

Egle, Dr. W. H., the historian, 504, 

505. 
Elkins, S. B., 504. 
Encyclopaedia, The, iv. 
Ewing, Gen. Thomas, 499. 
Exhibition, The Great International, at 

Hamburg, 497. 

Fahs, William F., portrait, 492. 
Flowers, Minerva A., 501. 
Fort Buford, 503. 
Fort Concho, 502. 
Fort Du Chesne, 502. 

Fort Leavenworth, infantry and Cav- 
alry School, 503. 
Fort Monroe, 502. 
Freedmen, 498. 
Freedom of Speech, v. 

Galbreath, C. B.. C)hio State Librarian, 

vi. 
Geroninio, The .Xpache chief, 502. 
Greeley, Horace, American Conflict, iv. 
Groesbeck, Hon. W. S., 499. 

Harper's Encyclopfedia, iv. 
Harrison, Benjamin, 504. 
History of the V. S. by Ellis, iv. 
Holly, Nancy, murdered, 495. 
Huse, Caleb, Captain, C. S. A., 496. 

Intelligencer, The National, 496. 
Institute, The American, 497. 

Jameson's Dictionary, iv. 

Johnson's Cyclopaedia, iv. 

Jubilee, The Queen's, in London, 495. 

Lincoln, .Mirnham, portrait, July ISGl, 

139. 
Lincoln, Robert T., Secretary of War, 

504. 
Losses in Civil War, iv. 

Masonic Lodge, The, 495. 

Memoirs of Gen. Grant, iv; of Gen. 

Sheridan, iv; of Gen. Sherman, iv. 
Miller, David, 495. 
Miller, J. N., Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., 

495. 
Miller, Princess A., 495. 
Montana, Chief Justice of, 498. 



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New York City, The libraries of, 503. 

Ohio, Military History of, iv. 
Orators, iii. 

Orton, Dr. Edward, LL. D., 501. 502. 
Orton, Prof. Edward, Jr., 501, 503. 
Ohio Company, The, 495. 

Preface, The, iii. 

President Arthur, 502. 

President Johnson, 498; appoints James 

H. Anderson, 502. 
President Lincoln, 496; his message to 

Congress, 497. 
Putnam, Gen. Rufus, 495. 

Kabb, Capt. Andrew, of the Revolution, 

504. 
Kaichley, Louis F. , v. 
Reminiscences, by Gen. Cox, iv. 
Revolutions, Annals of, iii. 
Robbins, Edward, convicted of murder, 

495. 
Roosevelt, Theodore, Winning of the 

West. iv. 
Ruhlen, Lieut. George, U. S. A., 502. 

San Antonio, 502. 

Sanford, Gen. IT. S., 490. 

Schurz, Hon. Carl, 496. 

Scott, Dr. W. H., president O. S. U., 

502. 



Scribner's Plistory, iv. 

Seward, Hon. F. W., .etter and por- 
traits of President Lincoln and Sec- 
retary Seward, 139. 

.Seward, Hon. William H., portrait, July 
1801, 139; 490; complimentary letter, 
498. 

Sherman, John, his letter to the Presi- 
dent, 498; his letter to James H. An- 
derson, 499. 

Slave case. The great, v. 

Society, Historical, of Virginia, 500; 
Ohio Archteological Lnd Historical, 
500; Old Northwest Genealogical, 
500. 

Soldiers, 49S. 

Sweetser memorial, vi. 

Taft, Gov. W. H., 502. 

Taylor, Col. W. A., Author, iv. 

Thurman, Allen (".., 499. 

Thwaites, R. G., Superintendent, vi. 

True, Henry, iv. 

Vice President General, elected, 499. 

Waite, Morrison R., 499. 

Wolcott, E. O., late U. S. Senator, 504. 

Yellowstone, The, 503. 



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